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Rising Star
Omg I am traumatized by that stupid word
Yes and no one wants to give a good explanation either! They just want you to give the t shirt size
Chief
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.
Chief
“Just implement a data-driven application, it’s probably XS-S” - strategy
A high level agile estimation technique
This was an apparel optimization framework invented at McKinsey by Marvin Bower in the late 1970s as yuppies expanded demand for non-tailored garments.
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.
Rising Star
PM1 nailed it.
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".
Chief
Ask your coworkers what size tshirt they wear so you know for the next team offsite!
Rising Star
Lol! I hated the term when I first heard it. Now I’ve come to embrace the shit out of it.
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.
It’s one way to estimate level of effort, often for user stories, in the agile methodology.
Chief
Nothing
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.