Estimating bugs in order to get better at estimating
A while ago I posted about why I feel you shouldn’t estimate bugs. In a nutshell, if you estimate bugs you’ve essentially ‘double-dipped’ the feature. There’s the estimate for the feature and the estimate(s) for the bug(s) introduced while the feature was being built. If you’re using Scrum defects go to the top, they don’t get estimated and they get worked on until the technical debt is gone. In Scrum, quality is not negotiable so if you’re...
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A good chunk of our team is headed to this workshop hosted by Declan Whelan and Jeff Patton tomorrow. While the workshop is targeted at the product owner or customer, I think it’s great that a couple of our developers decided to sign up as well. When I took my CSM training, we didn’t get to the optional model of User Stories, but we briefly talked about them in other modules which did help me figure out a few of the things what we were doing wrong. I think this is a great...
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