Re:People who use Notion to plan their whole lives
by epolanski on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @02:33PM
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I've never ever seen this estimation game lead to any better planning, ever.
Re:People who use Notion to plan their whole lives
by huehehue on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @03:24PM
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I can't think of any healthy team dynamic that doesn't require some form of deliverability estimates (this is not limited to engineering), and am very curious how you approach this.
Re:People who use Notion to plan their whole lives
by epolanski on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @06:18PM
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Ideally a good tech lead with a pulse of his team and stack should be able to do it alone. When estimations are crucial they can be further analyzed with more people.
It's the beaurocratic gamification aspect I despise.
Re:People who use Notion to plan their whole lives
by random_kris on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @07:45PM
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Ideally a good tech lead should share stuff like that with the team to take into account opinions of team members.
Having 2 meetings. 1 for task presentation and 1 for task estimation next day is really great
If you have a manager that's treating N points as a target, then you just have a bad manager. Sprint points are just a signal for how over/under your estimates are on average, to help inform future planning. If someone goes on vacation, how do I know how much work the remaining team can handle? It's also a good signal for measuring the impact of team/process changes (to be clear, the idea here is post hoc analysis and not +N points as a target).
That said, how would you prefer to handle capacity planning? Points aren't perfect, but trends should stabilize over time (you can have predictability/consistency without precision). You can even map point values to ranges of time (e.g. 1 point = [2, 8] hours) if it helps.