Tag Archives: User Story  #agile2011 Monday night thought – Does
using only #Velocity limit the opportunities for #acceleration?
I just finished reading an excellent Blog entry on transitioning
from traditional estimating to Story Point estimating by Ilan
Goldstein. You can find the blog post at the following link:
The article walks through the estimation process used during the
transition there are three excellent points.  1. I loved the
idea about being above-board and listing the conversion table
between Story Points and the range of hours typically associated
with those Story Points. Let’s face it, everyone is doing the
mental math and the only thing worse than people doing the
calculation, is everyone using a different version of the table
in their own head to do the calculation. So let’s all just agree
what that conversion table is. Excellent.  2. Taking previous
features developed and incorporating the effort they took into
the estimation process is wonderful. I have not heard mention
often enough a