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The Testing Peers podcast is now expanding beyond its original four hosts, David Maynard, Chris Armstrong, Russell Craxford and Simon Prior, striving to represent the voices of a diverse and thriving community. Our inaugural in-person conference, PeersCon, launched in Nottingham in March 2024 and will return in March 2025, further solidifying Testing Peers as a not-for-profit, by testers, for testers initiative.
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Planning and Estimation
Thank you for joining us for another episode of the Testing Peers podcast.
Join David, Simon, Russell and Chris as we talk about planning and estimation.
But, before we dive into the topic we take a brief look into the approaches the Peers take towards researching personal purchases and we discover Simon likes a good review!
This week's topic was inspired by Jo Richards and her tweet about story points.
https://twitter.com/iamjorichards/status/1583146372873990144?s=20&t=YFF4jtmXM8bRgskwTS6icA
In true Peers tradition, when talking about story points, their value and implementation, we mention that it depends on context. Hooray!
The discussion leads to estimation, value, audience, inclusion of testing effort and more.
Some useful articles referencing topics covered in the episode:
- Why do we use Story Points for Estimating? by Derek Davidson
- Practical Fibonacci: A Beginner's Guide to Relative Sizing by Julee Everett
- T-shirt sizes aren’t what you think: How to use t-shirt sizing for project estimation by Julie Martins
- Solving Software Industry Problems by Applying ‘Systems Thinking’ to Ourselves by Andrew Brown
We hope you found the discussion useful and would love to hear your feedback.
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