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I worked at a company where the scrum master told us that a story point had to be a fibonacci number. Has anyone heard of this? The original Agile Manifes
by chester_the_dog 4y ago
I worked at a company where the scrum master told us that a story point had to be a fibonacci number. Has anyone heard of this?
The original Agile Manifesto demonstrates the collective wisdom of people who have written a lot of software. Note that the Agile Manifesto doesn't mention a certified scrum master, or any role similar to it. It says that business people and developers should work together. It does not say that a certified scrum master should leave the stand-up meeting every morning to spend an hour giving a status report to the CTO.
- etblg 4y agoFibonacci story pointing is good, at least in my opinion. It removes a lot of the granularity of pointing, and forces the larger points to grow very fast. You still have some nuance between 2, 3, and 5 pointers, but once you start getting past that the numbers jump to 8, 13, 21, very fast. You don't need to spend time with your team debating whether something is a 5, 6, 7, or 8 pointer, it's closer to a 5, or its closer to an 8, if it's higher than an 8 it jumps up to 13. Less time spent circling around an exact number and quicker to get to a "is big" "is medium" "is small" "is trivial" decision.