Probably the holy grail of software development or any project for that matter is to know how long you have to go until you're going to be done. This is a very important metric from a lot of angles.
In software as tasks get brought into scope for a current sprint or release, this spikes up our hours. We might think something will take a long time and it impacts our perception of completion time. But as we dig into our tasks and re-estimate how long they will take to complete, we get more accurate. By providing a system to keep estimated hours until completion at the aggregate for a release we can be in control as a team. All of the stakeholders can watch as things ebb and flow and hopefully the work is burning down in time to meet our deliverable milestones. By looking at big tasks (sorting by largest hours to complete) we can see our risk in the project. Start the big stuff now and knock it down fast.
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