Advanced measurement

- The core team was working well together at this point. … And adding a scrum master helped the team stay on track. … - And adding a release manager with her motto … of always be shipping, kept stakeholders in the loop … and showed progress. … - A scrum master solved many outstanding issues … that the team had run into. … On the estimation front, … our teams had trouble estimating … how long features would take. … Initially tickets were estimated in hours, … but the number of hours used wasn't very accurate … unless they were very small tasks. … - In more than once the team spent … a lot of time bike shedding … about whether a specific large task … was 25 or 30 hours to do. … In the end, it's just a large task … and the variance up front … and that estimate didn't matter much. … Instead of using hours, … we initially pivoted to using t-shirt sizing … for estimates as a first step. … We used small, medium, large, and extra large shirt sizes … to size the tickets. … XXL, they saved for me. …