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SE Radio 599: Jason C. McDonald on Quantified Tasks

Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers

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Measuring Task Sizes in Agile Development

This chapter explores various scales commonly used for measuring tasks in agile development, including numbers, Fibonacci sequences, and t-shirt sizes. It discusses the importance of planning on short intervals for more certainty in task estimation and highlights the challenges of different people doing the estimating and the subjective nature of estimation.

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