Estimates take longer than the work? Try T-Shirt Sizing

Estimating every task to the hour takes weeks, and you still end up with a guess.

T-Shirt Sizing swaps hours for sizes. Hold each piece of work up against the tees, from XS to OS, and pick the one it fits. New data, tricky logic, many sources or real-time feeds all make it bigger. If it doesn’t fit, go up a size.

The data team picks the size. It’s a guesstimate, not a promise, so you spend less time estimating and more time delivering.

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