Estimating user stories

This is an article I wrote in 2014, rewritten slightly to account for the ravages of time and to incorporate the comments I’ve received since then. It’s about an idea I've introduced to every software team I’ve coached during the last eight years. If you try it, please publish your experiences and link to them via the comments here.

TL;DR:
Don't guess the size of a user story;
slice the story until it’s the size you want.

So there's this big discussion going on about #NoEstimates — and how estimatin...