program selection system

Reasonably accurate estimation of user stories is necessary in order to provide the customer with development schedule predictability. Small stories are usually fairly easy to estimate, but estimates for larger stories are often accompanied by higher degrees of uncertainty. Although a large story may sometimes be broken down into smaller stories for purposes of estimation, this is not always the case.

This workshop proposes a method for enabling a team of developers to rapidly quantify the relative complexities of larger user stories by using “tests” as the unit of estimation.