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Agile
Working Agreements
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Agile
Story Points
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Agile
Ideal Days
Purposedifferent
When collaboration needs more than implicit expectations, it lays out shared ground rules openly. It creates reliability for conduct, availability, and decision paths.When teams want to rate complexity rather than hours, it creates a shared, relative scale. It sorts work by value, risk, and delivery ability. The result is captured as Point Estimates, Reference Stories, and Velocity Data.When effort needs to be thought of as real working time, it offers a simple common denominator for comparison. It sorts work by value, risk, and delivery ability. The result is captured as Ideal Day Estimates, Assumption Notes, and Capacity Caveats.
Complexitydifferent
LowMediumLow
Timedifferent
45-90 minlaufend, 1-5 min je Item15-60 min
Participantsdifferent
3-123-92-9
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Working Agreements, Team Norms, Review CadencePoint Estimates, Reference Stories, Velocity DataIdeal Day Estimates, Assumption Notes, Capacity Caveats
Tags1 shared
TeamCollaborationAgile
EstimationAgileMeasurement
EstimationEffortAgile
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