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syncsynchalttoday at 3:14 PM1 replyview on HN

Nothing, except a story's size relative to other stories estimated by the same team.


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shermantanktoptoday at 4:02 PM

I had a manager institute PERT estimations for every task/sticky, which was interesting but not necessarily worth it.

In the end, the work takes the time it takes, and nobody knows how long that will be ahead of time. Fiddling around with estimates helps with ranking but not prediction.

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