Daily Standup Day 6: Five hours or five weeks…
Developer Terry: “I might be done tomorrow but maybe it will be next week.”
When I arrived, few of the User Stories had points assigned. Which is not surprising, given their hollow levels of description and cursory degrees of consideration. By not having sizes on the User Stories, it was impossible to make any predictions of when any given User Story would be delivered.
Under enormous amounts of pressure, the team had quickly generated User Stories as anything from ad hoc ...