I really hate bucket tasks, but I haven’t found a satisfying way to avoid them. We tend to have on every project things like:
- Defect Resolution <div class="codecolorer-container text vibrant overflow-off" style="overflow:auto;white-space:nowrap;">
1
16hrs</div>
- Update Use Cases <div class="codecolorer-container text vibrant overflow-off" style="overflow:auto;white-space:nowrap;">
1
8hrs</div>
- Update Rules Doc <div class="codecolorer-container text vibrant overflow-off" style="overflow:auto;white-space:nowrap;">
1
6hrs</div>
My best idea is to leave them off and include them in the slack typically left in a project or discover them when we actually have to do some work on them. So far the teams have been more comfortable with the bucket approach. And at the end of the Sprint the time mysteriously dries up.