Size

This post is a slightly updated version of the one published earlier Measurement is fundamental to any engineering discipline and the planning of a software creation work is no different. Whenever you plan to make or renew a piece of software the most important metric as the workload size. Measure of size is important because knowing the amount of work to do and the team skills (i.e. velocity) you can easily derive the work costs and duration. Agile software development methods do strive against the overplanning and overdetalization. However, being agile doesn’t mean having no clue on when the work is going to be completed. Vise versa most if not all of the agile methods continuously provide team the current “best guess” on the remaining workload and possibly even options to cut some corners. ...