How To Estimate User Stories? | #9

Thank you! I have been trying to explain this to my new team and you are very thorough. I will be sharing this with them.

I didn't like it , 99% of the estimates is defined by managers , developers just follow

Awesome explanation Vibhor. I have a question. Some teams calculating Dev estimate , Test estimate separately and summing those to get final story point instead of following relative estimate technique. E.g. if dev gives 3sp, tester gives 2Sp the overall estimate is given as 5sp where as actually this is a 3SP user story based on the reference story.

Also, is calculating individual velocity a right approach or an anti pattern? - Kindly throw some light on these questions.

very useful videos, thanks Vibhor

Great. Thanks for showing a way to find references for different story points for other domains like systems engineering.

I have a question about the user story references technique.
Why you need first compute the total value (Complexity+Risk+Effort) for each user story selected then sorting, then, assign a Fibonacci value to finally have the final user story size?
What happend if assign the Fibonacci values from the beginning to my selected user stories, without the previous classification?
Did you explain this in another video?

Anyway thanks for this fantastic video about user story estimation

Should we estimate bugs?

What if : "The product master hands over the results of sprint 1 to the customer, the customer accepts the results of this sprint. Then , while working on sprint 2 , customer wants to add some functionality related to sprint 1" , how do we handle Estimate User Stories ?

awesome content , will keep watching

Hi Vibhor!
Thanks for you video!
Evaluation in SP or hours has its pros and cons, and in principle it is possible to justify the choice of any of them.

You said that converting SP to hours is a mistake, ok))
But what do you say to such a question: let's say you chose an estimate in SP; the team evaluated "effort"for this task = 5 SP.
we konow, that for billing purposes, all developers track the time in hours. After completing the task, we see 25 hours in this task.
How to assess whether the team got into the estimation or not for this particular task?
Bottle neck is that we have an estimate in SP, but the time tracking is in hours.

Excellent

Thank you Vibhor, great explanation! 🙏

If there are no estimates, how do we know when the resources will be available to work on another project?

Love the way agile being explained

Good content, keep it up ! But how do you think the team will be aligned and pick 5 US from 100 (for example)? for that you should review all the US?

Many thanks for your videos. Always well detailed and easy to follow. Differnce between Acceptance Criteria and Definition of Done, well explained. Thumbs up!

Little different to make story map..is any other alternative way to setup storymap

I love the way you break things down, been watching a couple of your videos and it’s very comprehensive sir 👌 thank you 🙏🏽

Hi Vibhor, thanks for the awesome explanation! I have been enjoying n leaning a lot from your videos. I have one request, If you could slow down pace of your speech a bit..it would give more time to listeners to absorb and understand the whole thing more easily as there is so much to pick from each video.

You are awesome as always. Thank you.

Isn’t it ideal to mature to a state of small slices of user stories and go with no of user stories to be delivered in a sprint as estimate than going with story points?

I know practically it isnt easy to achieve however going with user story count for forecasts sound simple. What do you think?

With no-estimate - how to get the release dates for the project? How to forecast ?

nice and informative video

How could the swimlane technique be done virtually?

What is the logic behind using fibonacci series . why only fibonacci . i had used personally fibonacci in technical analysis of trading shares in share market .

What is the difference between efforts and estimate?

Excellent explanation, so helpful, thank you! A follow up question: how often is this process done? Is this a process repeated each time new stories are added to the product backlog? I’m a bit confused how this element fits into the Agile iterations/sprints. Thank you.

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I daily go through your videos please can you explain user stories in detail, with int var char charcters with sql

Tanks handsome .

Hi Vibhor,

Can we decide reference stories on the basis of stories completed in the previous sprints? Actually, we decide our reference stories every quarter.

Thanks your videos are exceptionally well detailed.

I will be looking forward hearing from you.

Hi Vibhor, your videos are really helpfull, thank you so much. I have a question though. Do you have a workflow of your own to work with the stakeholers, sme's and scrumteam such as lean inception?

It was very detail video with practical tips. Thanks.

very well explained on story map

Hey Vibhor. I really like your videos. I am new to the field of Scrum Master. Your Videos do help me. Please keep on bringing new videos on new concepts. Is this the place to ask you if I need help in my work or can we contact you via mail too.

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Would you have any guidance to implement scrumban?

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I love your videos man!

Great one! Thanks

I didn't know that Jeff Goldblum was from India! ;-)

😍 Crushing… thank you

Great video!!

Hi Vibhor...I disagree on one point..the mistake 4...the ref. Baseline for a story will not change

It will change Vibhor. As the team gains experience, a 5 Storypointer could become a 3 Storypointer bcoz. There are now APIs which are reusable, and I have automated testing and my team also improved technically.

Let me know ur thoughts

Great info Vibhor...thq!!

Should we estimate defects, improvement stories and tasks? Again " it all depends" is not what I'm looking for, but in general and in agile world is it a good practice to estimate?