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I never understood story points. Is it just psychological to use a different unit of time, so that managers' expectations aren't so hard and fast? Story points
by jackcosgrove 7y ago
I never understood story points. Is it just psychological to use a different unit of time, so that managers' expectations aren't so hard and fast?
Story points remind me of those weird units of work the cloud providers bill you for, or the company scrip that a coal mine would have issued 100 years ago. I call story points AgileBucks.
Why not just use standard units?
- joejerryronnie 7y agoI think it’s a purposeful abstraction for relative estimation of a task. Since nobody is good at estimating the exact number of days a particular task will take, story points are a way to give a general estimate of task complexity (usually people end up equating this to a rough timeframe) without having to commit to a specific number of days. In our 2 week sprints we have four possible story point values - 3, 5, 8, 13. If the story should take a couple of days, it’s 3 points. If the story will probably take the full sprint, it’s 13 points. If the story is somewhere in between, pick 5 or 8.