Story points measure the estimated effort needed to complete a work item, serving as a standard unit of measurement for comparing and estimating different items. They help teams plan and prioritize work more effectively by providing a better understanding of the overall effort required for a project or sprint. Story points’ actual values are not […]
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What does Velocity represent in Scrum?
Agile team members work together to groom, plan, commit, and deliver work every sprint. The number of story points that a team delivers in a sprint is known as velocity. Velocity Definition Velocity is thus a measure of the speed (ideally, expressed in story points) at which an agile team delivers work every sprint. […]
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Story points were meant to be abstract. This abstraction helped bring a discussion back to work (size, complexity, bigness, etc.). In the absence of story points (in the earlier days), people would often argue about hours, leading to a lot of emotions around time. A real time scenario between my Boss and me is presented […]
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