Timeline for What work item size is appropriate in Kanban?
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| Dec 19, 2019 at 19:09 | vote | accept | Chris Brettini | ||
| Dec 19, 2019 at 18:59 | comment | added | Todd A. Jacobs♦ | "Be a mentor" is an aspiration, not a deliverable. Kanban, and project management in general, track deliverables. The job of a project manager is to help teams decompose goals and aspirations into measurable, deliverable chunks that can be tracked with some level of precision. | |
| Dec 19, 2019 at 18:07 | comment | added | Sarov | @ChrisBrettini Updated my Answer. | |
| Dec 19, 2019 at 17:51 | comment | added | Chris Brettini | Many tasks I definitelly can split into smaller ones. But what about the task "Be a mentor for a junior developer"? | |
| Dec 19, 2019 at 17:48 | comment | added | Sarov | @ChrisBrettini I was responding to 'we never know how much time the task will take', but my point also more or less stands in the general case - Do you really have tasks that take both 5 days and 2 months? Are you really unable to break those 2 month stories up any further? | |
| Dec 19, 2019 at 17:46 | answer | added | Sarov | timeline score: 1 | |
| Dec 19, 2019 at 17:43 | comment | added | Chris Brettini | But we are not talking about the precision of estimates, are we? | |
| Dec 19, 2019 at 17:31 | comment | added | Sarov | @ChrisBrettini If your estimates are off by an order of magnitude, then your team needs to get better at estimating. Estimating 5 days and having it take 2 months is not okay. | |
| Dec 19, 2019 at 17:06 | comment | added | Chris Brettini | How can I achieve that? A developer always may encouonter a lot of problems while working on a task - so we never know how much time the task will take. Is Kanban really appropriate for development teams? | |
| Dec 19, 2019 at 17:04 | history | edited | Chris Brettini | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 19, 2019 at 17:03 | comment | added | Todd A. Jacobs♦ | If you want effective flow, your work items should all be within the same order or magnitude. | |
| Dec 19, 2019 at 16:59 | history | asked | Chris Brettini | CC BY-SA 4.0 |