[bind10-dev] Estimates for current sprint (ending 2011-07-12)

[Shane Kerr]

Jinmei,

On Tue, 2011-07-05 at 00:30 -0700, JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉 wrote:
> At Thu, 30 Jun 2011 14:49:55 +0100,
> Stephen Morris <stephen at isc.org> wrote:
> 
> > With another sprint comes another request for estimates.  However, be
> > encouraged: as a result of previous rounds of estimating, over half the
> > tasks on the current sprint already have estimates associated with them.
> > 
> > Could you please take a look at the attached tasks and send me your
> > estimates by the end of Tuesday 5 July.
> 
> I've just sent my estimates to Stephen, but I'm afraid I really don't
> remember (or even understand perhaps) the consensus on the biweekly
> call discussion on the effectiveness of the estimates.  So, please let
> me ask a stupid question: what's the purpose of these estimates?  We
> still don't seem to use them for planning (at least we didn't use them
> for the most recent planning session).  Are the estimates now just for
> records?  Or do we have a plan to (retry to) use them for planning as
> well?  If so, how?

We do track our productivity:

http://bind10.isc.org/wiki/Burndown

We have used these in the past. I know when I was trying to fill in for
Stephen I used the estimates to try to get a rough idea of how much
stuff we could put in the sprint.

How much time does it take to make these estimates?

--
Shane