I guess there are many way to use points, but what was described in this article isn't the way we use them. Points are great for a group of people to groom a s

I guess there are many way to use points, but what was described in this article isn't the way we use them. Points are great for a group of people to groom a story (estimate a features difficulty). Points are an estimate of difficulty. The way we do it is we have a story that describes what feature will be built, then as a group we talk about it and then all at the same time (so we aren't persuaded by others) rate the story with points (level of difficulty) and if we all (developers) rate it at the same points then we add the points, if we have different opinions on the points (level of difficulty) then we discuss why we think it's easier or harder. And this helps others who wrote the story foresee issues or know of other simpler solutions. Works great if you ask me, and that's how we were taught to do it.