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This has been debated extensively, but here are some common arguments against estimating bugs and chores:
* Bugs and chores are a cost of doing business. Tracker's automatic velocity calculation frees you from having to account for this cost, and instead to focus your planning on business value, risk, and prioritization.
* The goal of measuring velocity is to predict how much business value can be delivered in each iteration. Therefore, only work which provides business value is given points. Bugs are not given points because the introduction of bugs actually distracts from providing business value.
* When there are bugs in features which have already been accepted, points have already been measured in the project velocity for that feature. Counting them again would be double counting.
* Chores should be thought of as engineering overhead -- not directly providing business value, but merely enabling the ability to provide business value.
If you'd still like to be able to estimate bugs and chores, you can enable it for your project in the project settings. You can disable it later, as long as there are no estimated bugs or chores in the project.
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Inappropriate?This has been debated extensively, but here are some common arguments against estimating bugs and chores:
* Bugs and chores are a cost of doing business. Tracker's automatic velocity calculation frees you from having to account for this cost, and instead to focus your planning on business value, risk, and prioritization.
* The goal of measuring velocity is to predict how much business value can be delivered in each iteration. Therefore, only work which provides business value is given points. Bugs are not given points because the introduction of bugs actually distracts from providing business value.
* When there are bugs in features which have already been accepted, points have already been measured in the project velocity for that feature. Counting them again would be double counting.
* Chores should be thought of as engineering overhead -- not directly providing business value, but merely enabling the ability to provide business value.
If you'd still like to be able to estimate bugs and chores, you can enable it for your project in the project settings. You can disable it later, as long as there are no estimated bugs or chores in the project.
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Inappropriate?I work on a Maintenance project which is another project from the original development. Bugs and chores is most of what we do for customer who provide customer care for end users that use online service daily. Thank you for this ability.
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