Essentials
“velocity is a useful long-term predictor but is not a useful short-term predictor”
Story points are an artificial, relative unit of measure for development effort, often combined with timeboxed agile methods to estimate velocity.
Story points are coarse and atomic, arising from intuitive inductive judgement. Trade accuracy for speed, at the possible cost of future rework.
Teams may use tools — such as planning poker — to reach collective consensus valuations.
Estimates for
epics — supersized stories not yet decomposed — are almost always inaccurate.
So avoid unfounded perceptions of precision by limiting point values to a sequence — often inspired by Fibonacci.
Selected
Seed
- What Story Points Are Better Than Hours
- Explaining Story Points To Management
- Advantages of User Stories for Requirements
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