“Your product team can see that Feature A is 250 tasks, Feature B is 50 tasks and that your team completes tasks at an average rate of 40 tasks per week to project a reasonable completion time on their own. Feature A would probably take a little over 6 weeks. Feature B would probably take a little over 1 week.

You get more accurate projections and estimates because you stopped estimating”

You didn’t stop estimating. You moved the estimating to another team.

The rest of the post is a good summary of how story points fail and how to improve on that but at the end of the day, people will still want dates (and maybe now also a change request process)l

Tony Meyer @tonyandrewmeyer