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And how many other parallel work streams are going. So many times I’ve estimated something to be “5” and it’s gone into my queue. Then people are wondering why it’s not done after “5” estimation units have passed and I’ve got “10” points worth of more high priority tasks and fires at every moment of my career


Excellent example why anything else than work hours is pointless to estimate in.




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