Estimating your work
Estimation is an art and is a big part of Scrum. Being able to estimate well as a team will directly impact how successful your sprints will be. When it comes to Scrum, estimation means velocity, or, in other words, how much work your team can deliver in a sprint. This is different from the traditional idea of measuring and estimating by man-hours.
The concept of measuring velocity is based around decoupling estimation from time tracking. So, instead of estimating the work based on how many hours it will take to complete a story, which will inadvertently make people work long hours trying to keep the estimates accurate, it can be easily done by using an arbitrary number for measurement, which will help us avoid this pitfall. ...
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