Questions tagged [planning-poker]
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What exactly is Yak Shaving?
This came up when a developer brought in these planning poker cards, one of which is Yak Shaving.
There are various articles on google/wikitionary which basically say:
Yak shaving is programming lingo for the seemingly endless series of small tasks…
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How to handle similar/re-usable work when estimating story points?
In our Jira board we might have 5 tickets for different API endpoints - for example:
ListArticle
GetArticle
CreateArticle
DeleteArticle
When we create these new endpoints, there is some initial work that needs to take place to get our…
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Is there a reason to use specifically fibonacci sequence in planning poker?
I've noted that fibonacci sequence is quite popular in planning poker, but is it a reason for that particular sequence? Wouldn't for example powers of 2 work equally well?
Both sequences are more or less exponential while fibonacci uses a factor of…
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