Ask HN: How to you know expected time for ticket?

4 points by TorontoTheGood 3 years ago | 2 comments

This might be a silly question, but how does your company make you aware of the time expected to finish a specific ticket? I'm still new in this career, and get this feeling that everything needs to be finished as fast as possible. Is there a way in which I can feel more in control and therefore less stressed working under Scrum?

andrewfromx 3 years ago |

I find it best to break everything down to 4 hour tasks. If a ticket is crazy big it should be made into sub-tickets each about 4 hours of work. Then with an 8 hour day you assume half will be taken by meetings, lunch, etc. So very reasonable for average engineer to get one 4 hour ticket done a day.

patenthero 3 years ago |

> and get this feeling that everything needs to be finished as fast as possible.

I can tell for certain that you are at a wrong company. Soon you will realize that whatever work you do there adds no value either to the product or your career