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Relative estimation

Relative estimation

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Relative estimation

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- Have you ever tried to estimate something and you felt you just didn't have the right information to form a good estimate? Relative estimating is a term and technique Agile BAs use with the team to estimate the upcoming work. The mindset is that estimates get better over time as we learn more, understand complexity better, and use continuous feedback loops. When using relative estimating, work with the team to apply a numeric value called story points to each user story. Now story points don't represent hours or days but rather they're relative and they're different for each team. They're relative in that the team uses previous information and then compares the story to another story giving it a point value similar, higher, or lower in comparison to the previous item. To do this estimating, the estimate values or story points are based on the Fibonacci scale. Now most teams use an adapted scale like this, zero, one, two, three, five, eight, 13. Story points are estimates based on…

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