On: Story points are pointless, measure queues

[mikeocool]

Given the size of my scroll bar, I rate reading this article a 13. My PM has decided I shouldn't bother reading it, as the likely value isn't worth the effort, because whenever we take on a 13, it ends up dragging on for like 4 sprints, and preventing a lot of other higher value/lower effort stuff from getting done.

Maybe at some point in the future, we'll break the article and have a few people on the team each read it part of it for lower effort, and then synthesize their take aways.

[josiahpeters → mikeocool]

I feel personally attacked by this comment. This hits so close to home. I think I have some personal reflection to do.

[brightball → mikeocool]

Totally get it. :-)

I did include a helpful TLDR near the beginning with the highlights though.

[choppaface → brightball]

I found the tldr really confusing and next-to-useless. It’s a really really long article and I just wanted to read about queuing since yeah story points can suck.

[brightball → choppaface]

I’ll see what I can do to improve it.

[jurassicfoxy → mikeocool]

This article was not written for the reader, but written because the writer loves to hear himself write.