What does “t shirt sizing” mean?

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Omg I am traumatized by that stupid word

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Yes and no one wants to give a good explanation either! They just want you to give the t shirt size

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In project management, T-shirt sizing is a project estimation and capacity planning tool that helps you track how much time or effort an initiative will take. To do this, you assign each project or task a t-shirt size—from Extra Small to XXL—to represent that task's relative effort.

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“Just implement a data-driven application, it’s probably XS-S” - strategy

A high level agile estimation technique

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This was an apparel optimization framework invented at McKinsey by Marvin Bower in the late 1970s as yuppies expanded demand for non-tailored garments.

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Nobody (except D1) is going to help the poor consultant out?

T shirt sizing = really rough estimates of small medium large

E.g. tech build out will take $1M. Top down estimate that's not accurate without much analysis.

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PM1 nailed it.

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Dress shirt, I'm a 15/34.5, heavily taken in, with at least 5 other measurements when I go custom.

T-shirt, I'm a medium.

T-shirts are made to fit a ton of body types, but do require it to be "close enough" to still fit.

Pricing/sizing is similar. You don't need the specifics, but the numbers should still be plausibly "close enough".

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Ask your coworkers what size tshirt they wear so you know for the next team offsite!

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Lol! I hated the term when I first heard it. Now I’ve come to embrace the shit out of it.

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It’s a way to give a ballpark up front estimate of the cost of a piece of work for a client, based on the concept of S,M,L,XL tied to a range of $. For example: S=0-50k, M=50-100k, L=100-200k, XL =200k+ The definition of these ranges can vary by company.

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It’s one way to estimate level of effort, often for user stories, in the agile methodology.

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It’s a bit easier to frame estimate of effort when you think in terms of t shirts. Brushing teeth? X-small. Fixing the roof? XXL

Just heard that word today for the first time in a clinet call and thought it's cringe. What a coincidence! They could just say 'estimating'

I felt like a noobie knowing the fact that I am the only person in the comment section who has no idea what that means.

There is “no one size fits all” so you need different “t-shirt sizes” 😜

You eventually end up in estimating man days but force the man days to wear different T shirt sizes.

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