Re:Facebook to shift permanently toward more remote work aft...
by dkn775 on Thursday May 21, 2020 @05:00PM
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One thing that stuck out to me is how consistent the numbers became between each other under WFH. I am not familiar with the metric or scrum, but I wonder what the cause is?
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Re:Facebook to shift permanently toward more remote work aft...
by klenwell on Thursday May 21, 2020 @05:22PM
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I noticed that, too. I think that's mostly coincidence. Velocity is based on story points. Here's a definition of story points as a unit of measure that I like:
A Story Point is a relative unit of measure, decided upon and used by individual Scrum teams, to provide relative estimates of effort for completing requirements.
https://www.scrum.org/resources/blog/why-do-we-use-story-poi...
It is generally recommend you not include time as a component of that unit. For our teams, we kinda do. (Basically, for us, story point = time + uncertainty + complexity.) So there is a common standard. But with scrum you're supposed to size stories relative to other (previous) stories and I feel it's ok for the standard measure of a story point to drift apart between teams as long as its internally consistent to the team.
So maybe there's some kind of leveling force at work. But probably not.