28 – Shawn, Stop Estimating Effort in Days

Shawn Tabor wants to know whether to estimate project effort in days or story points. Aren’t they the same thing?

I’ve used four ways of estimating effort in my Dynamics 365 projects:

1. Counting cards
2. Days
3. T-shirts
4. Story points

Estimating in days is an absolute estimation method, whereas t-shirts and story points are both relative estimation methods. This means that we compare the relative…

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28 – Shawn, Stop Estimating Effort in Days

Shawn Tabor wants to know whether to estimate project effort in days or story points. Aren’t they the same thing? I’ve used four ways of estimating effort in my Dynamics 365 projects: Counting cards Days T-shirts Story points Estimating in days is an absolute estimation method, whereas t-shirts and story points are both relative estimation methods.

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