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Rethinking Agile Ep1: Story Points Are Trash? With Ryan Ripley

Agile Uprising Podcast

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The Importance of Averages in Software Forecasting

Carlos: I love the example about the average, right? There is a quote from the book, the blog averages. And usually when I say it to people, they think, what does he mean by that? He says you would never use an average because it's way too risky. So maybe we can talk about what does it mean to think probabilistically? Do you want to talk about that? Carlos: You know, I have a very simplistic view of it as the world is complex. There are millions of possible outcomes and probabilistic forecasting gives us an opportunity to quickly consider those Possible Outcomes. Thankfully there's a tool called actionable data spits out really good

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