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Tech IndustrySep 22, 2018
NewpoRd04

How normal is manager asking team to put tasks adding up to 80 hours/sprint?

2 week sprint = 2*40 hrs Is this normal in other tech companies such as FAANG, Microsoft, Unicorns? The team does both ML software development a d ML research. Putting hours in feels like manufacturing or retail.

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Amazon good_bad Sep 22, 2018

80? Try 120

Uber truckyeah Sep 22, 2018

You offended by having to put in hours? Awe

Microsoft ComputePls Sep 22, 2018

The manager doesn’t believe your estimate, she thinks you blowing it up.

Microsoft JohnSnow🐲 Sep 22, 2018

We usually estimate 80% utilization, 20% for email and meetings.

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sqrteng Sep 22, 2018

We estimate 5 hours of coding.The rest is meeting and team code review

Microsoft Tier 1 Sep 22, 2018

Uh this is why you should use “points” not hours

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sqrteng Sep 22, 2018

Points are also tricky.At the end of the day ,it will boils down to time.

Microsoft Tier 1 Sep 22, 2018

The thing with points is that there is no expectation of a fixed number of points per sprint.

Microsoft WoCE36 Sep 22, 2018

I think my old company discounts the work hours by .6 towards sprint, because there are meetings that don’t involve coding