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SE Radio 599: Jason C. McDonald on Quantified Tasks
Jan 17, 2024
44:32
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Jason C. McDonald discusses the flaws of story points and introduces his alternative called Quantified Tasks. They explore various scales used for measuring tasks in agile development. The concept of quantified tasks and how they capture effort in software development is explained. The pushback encountered during implementation and the use of quantified tasks for bug detection are discussed. The benefits and challenges of using quantified tasks to identify problems within a team or company are explored. Learn how to implement and use the quantified tasks system.
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- Quantified Tasks introduces three key metrics: distance, friction, and relativity to address the shortcomings of story points.
- Quantified Tasks offers advantages like better planning and estimation, and identifying quality control failures through bug volatility assessment.
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This episode of Software Engineering Radio features a discussion with Jason C. Macdonald on his development called Quantified Tasks as an alternative to story points.
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