Posts Tagged story points

Sizing Up the Enterprise

Posted by David Bland in agile, enterprise, scrum on January 24, 2010

As teams begin to estimate User Stories, they may explore different approaches such as T-Shirt sizes and Fibonacci sequences that stop at 8 or go much higher. This freedom to choose a relative sizing style allows a team to adopt what fits well within their work environment. While this flexible approach is quite useful at [...]

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Story Pointless

Posted by David Bland in humor, user stories on September 17, 2009

Have you ever attempted explaining Story Points to a new Agile team? It can be an incredibly frustrating experience. Perhaps that is a result of the Story Point being an arbitrary unit of measure, or perhaps I’m just bad at it. I remember in a CSM class once we walked through the Dog Points Exercise. [...]

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