In Agile software development, team members often make a rough calculation of the relative value, number, quantity, or extent of something that they might work on. In Scrum, it is particularly common for teams to perform estimation, so that they have an understanding of the relative size of things that are on their to-do list, where that to-do list is referred to as the Product Backlog. Teams that estimate use those calculations to help them make informed judgements about how much work they can do over a particular time horizon. On many of those teams, those estimates serve as data points when calculating their “velocity,” a metric that they use for capacity planning purposes. Although many Agile teams perform estimation in some form, not all teams do so.
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Authored by Philip Rogers
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