Simplicity and Perspective
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler. — Albert Einstein
Dave Rooney recently bemoaned on Twitter about how complicated people make things, pointing in particular to a thread on the scrumdevelopment yahoogroup. It’s a thread that started with a question about a team wanting to adjust the Sprint Backlog in-sprint when something changed about their capacity to complete the work. From there it spawned a long discussion about various ways to estimate the work and commit to it.
To me, most of these approaches to estimation are more complicated than is necessary. Some go into detailed calculations that are far more complicated than what most teams do. I could tell you a really simple technique, but I suspect most teams aren’t ready for extreme simplicity, yet. Read More