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Re:How I Estimate Work as a Staff Software Engineer by bogeholm on Saturday January 24, 2026 @06:25PM (#46748806)
> For the first one, you CANNOT use what you just described, since it doesn't represent time, so you cannot give dates in any form.

Exactly - that’s the point.

Story points assigned to a SINGLE task is not for estimating time spent on that task.

Story points can - given prior data - give you an estimate of time spent on a GROUP of future tasks

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