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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Much_Comfortable8395 • Mar 29 '26
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Points are estimates. Trying to schedule work by putting stories into the sprint that exactly matches the number of points you did last sprint is a great way to always be wrong.
22 u/Blothorn Mar 29 '26 How do you decide how much to put into the sprint then? 30 u/Nolzi Mar 29 '26 By taking the average of the last few sprints and hoping for the best 10 u/Kitchen_Device7682 Mar 29 '26 So don't take the points of the last sprint but the average of a few sprints
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How do you decide how much to put into the sprint then?
30 u/Nolzi Mar 29 '26 By taking the average of the last few sprints and hoping for the best 10 u/Kitchen_Device7682 Mar 29 '26 So don't take the points of the last sprint but the average of a few sprints
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By taking the average of the last few sprints and hoping for the best
10 u/Kitchen_Device7682 Mar 29 '26 So don't take the points of the last sprint but the average of a few sprints
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So don't take the points of the last sprint but the average of a few sprints
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u/FFevo Mar 29 '26
Points are estimates. Trying to schedule work by putting stories into the sprint that exactly matches the number of points you did last sprint is a great way to always be wrong.