Translations:Affinity Estimating/5/en

How to apply it

Before the session, gather all the user stories or tasks to be estimated.

• Silent Sort: copies of the stories are handed out to the participants. Each person sorts them silently from smallest to largest relative size, without discussing with the others. The silence is deliberate: it prevents the opinions of the team's more influential members from biasing the sort from the outset.
• Discussion and adjustment: once all the stories are sorted, the team discusses them. Any member can move a story, but must explain their reasoning. The goal is to reach consensus on the relative order.
• Grouping: the team groups the stories into blocks of similar size.
• Assigning values: an estimation value is assigned to each group. The scale can be Fibonacci, T-shirt sizing, or any system the team normally uses.