Re: The purpose of Story Points and estimating

Hi Ed,

I think you already gave your own answer.

There's a lot of value in this team communicating about the work to be
done, and to continue doing that over the next sprints. If an estimation
game is the only way you can see to stimulate that communication then you
should keep on doing that. If not...

Wouter

On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 2:24 AM, [email protected] [SCRUMDEVELOPMENT] <
[email protected]> wrote:

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> In my scenario, we have a new scrum team.  They will be working on project
> "z".  They consist of 3 team members, a PO and a ScrumMaster.
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> They were interrupted during their sprint 0 activity for project z, and
> tasked with project x.  fantastic, we estimated it so the team can get an
> understanding of the work.  Somehow amazingly the new team is retasked with
> project y.
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> Project X is dead, may be revisited some future date, but project y is so
> important, they brought in another fulltime developer to support project y.
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> The dilemma here is the new built out dev team agrees this will take about
> 2 sprints, and once that is complete the team will be reorganized and we
> will start working on project z.
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> Given the change in priority (nevermind Weinberg escalating context
> switching costs or Usman's team stability) what is the purpose of
> estimating the stories.  The Dev team is committing to completing the work
> in two sprints.  The future team AND future work is quite different. Where
> does estimating this temporary project have value.  I do not think there is
> value in planning, since the work was split, and committed.  (the team
> obviously rough sized it already to be able to commit to a level within a
> sprint).  There is no value in establishing velocity as the team will
> change, so it is an anomaly that will have to be noted.
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> The only value I see is getting the team used to doing the work.  Am I
> missing something?
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