Estimates are first and foremost for project planning. Eventually, as various team members get familiar with the codebase, disparities should fade away.
I propose that we stop measuring throughput or velocity. Instead, companies should empower software teams to make value estimates on individual work items.
In this third part of my Rethinking Agile series, instead of adding practices, I recommend something for you to remove. That is, stop estimating effort!
In every backlog I've estimated, I encounter the story that knows no bound. The Un-estimatable Story. Anxiety wells within me at the drawn out conversation about to begin as we get