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Sep 5, 2019 at 7:10 vote accept kukis
Sep 4, 2019 at 21:13 comment added seventyeightist Btw, from my experience story points & hours are just different ways of measuring the same thing (like cups and grams in a baking recipe for example). Ultimately there's no evidence that estimating story points vs hours results in more accurate estimates across the board (I haven't done a study on it, but I know it to be true from my own experience!) ... the fact you're asking for evidence on here bears that out. Likely 'hours' will to be translated by managers into actual elapsed hours etc, whereas story points are more abstract and don't yield to that immediate scheduling analysis.
Sep 4, 2019 at 21:05 comment added seventyeightist @kukis Also consider asking this in the Project Management SE: pm.stackexchange.com (Where they deal with all kinds of projects, not necessarily just 'software' projects.)
Sep 4, 2019 at 20:08 comment added kukis @IDrinkandIKnowThings Could you answer my question to the comment you made? Nowhere in my question I've mentioned software industry
Sep 4, 2019 at 20:01 comment added IDrinkandIKnowThings @kukis - Try asking this question Here
Sep 4, 2019 at 19:30 comment added kukis @IDrinkandIKnowThings how so? Don't you use estimations in any other industries?
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Sep 4, 2019 at 18:18 comment added Cypher This can be applied to any sort of work estimate, not just software.
Sep 4, 2019 at 17:39 comment added Julie in Austin Estimating work as "story points" or even "hours" is prone to all manner of issues. The most common is "who is doing this work?" After that comes "How many meetings are going to interrupt that work?" Which is better? Neither.
Sep 4, 2019 at 17:17 comment added IDrinkandIKnowThings I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because it is about Software Engineering not navigating the workplace.
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Sep 4, 2019 at 16:03 comment added kukis @BrianH thanks for the comment BrianH. While I am aware of how most of the workplaces work (though I would argue that more and more workplaces are aiming to be more data-driven) that doesn't answer the question posted by me. I am not annoyed by estimating my work in story points, I just want to find out is there any truth to it.
Sep 4, 2019 at 15:59 comment added BrianH Most workplace practices and policies are not based upon academic research or publications, but upon personal experience of individuals and organizations, passed along over time through oral traditions, shared experiences, evolution, case-studies of places that succeeded/survived and adopting what they tried, on the job training, etc. - which is rarely ever published. If you try to go at it from theory-first, or data-driven, or "evidence-based", you will generally be very annoyed to find that most workplaces don't work that way at all - not even a little bit.
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