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welly on March 10, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Deadlines and sprints are bad for you

If story points are fictional then that's not the fault of the process, it's the fault of the person who made the estimation.

If you've been working as a developer for any length of time, you should know roughly how long a particular task is going to take you.

massivecali on March 10, 2019 [–]

I know how long it takes me to accomplish a task given spherical cows. Since nothing is stable (test environment, content, other fires), the story points are irrelevant.

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