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List:       extremeprogramming
Subject:    Re: [XP] More Challenges -- peer pressure on estimates
From:       "Jeff Grigg" <jeffgrigg () charter ! net>
Date:       2004-09-30 20:15:00
Message-ID: cjhpg4+nuc0 () eGroups ! com
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> --- "Dave Rooney" <dave.rooney@m...> wrote:
>> [...] senior people ([...]) have a tendency to say, "Oh,
>> that's not too big... it'll take about 2 days, right?",
>> when another member of the team is choosing a task during
>> Iteration Planning.  The less senior people typically
>> don't argue in that case.

--- "jrb32002" <jrb3@j...> wrote:
> Penalty flag!  Estimating someone else's work.

Or, to make this /really simple/ --

|   "If you estimate it, you do it."

That's it.


(And...  You need to estimate points, not hours or days.  ;-)



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