Damn! Team Just do it!!!
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joke aside, story point can be quite arbitrary
I'd rather story points than my company's WAG time estimates ๐ฅฒ
Man, this whole thread is like a foreign language to me.
Haha they're just different ways of estimating the difficulty of a work task. Story points are a kind of estimate that are represented by a number. The larger the number the more difficult the task.
My company uses WAG (wild ass guess) time estimates where we have to actually say how long we think a task is going to take in a matter of days or weeks. It sounds fine but programming tasks are notoriously hard to estimate since you have to consider so many different factors. I'm especially bad at it so I'd much prefer just saying "this task is an 8 because it seems hard"
It'll take 20 hours. Unless it's harder than I thought. Or it's easier than I thought. Or it's exactly as hard as I thought except there's one little thing that I get stuck on for 5 hours.
I recently estimated a task to take a couple hours but it ended up taking a week. Hadn't considered having to update a bunch of other teams services with new proto schemas and making sure they were deployed before our own service ๐