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May 12, 2012 at 9:42	comment	added	Bartek Kobyłecki		Maybe I was not clear enough - I agree with you that there must be a moment of 'quiet contemplation' as you write. What I meant was that it could be broken for a while IF there is will from the team to do so. For example if team estimates a task and gives 8, but knows it can be 5 if ie. textbox is generic then they can have option to ask customer/client that particular question.
May 12, 2012 at 9:22	comment	added	jmort253		Still, I would think there would be some part of the estimation phase where the dev's go into a state of quiet contemplation so they can actually go through each feature and calculate how long it will take. It's hard to do that with a bunch of nontechnicals asking you redundant questions while you're trying to think :) If there are areas where clarification is needed, then I think an estimation meeting with the client would then be in order :)
May 12, 2012 at 9:08	comment	added	Bartek Kobyłecki		Good point with division meeting into elaborating/gathering (1) and estimating (2) phase. I would add that in the second phase client can be available to the team, so when during estimating team needs clarifications, they can ask client/customer directly.
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