How big is your Story Point? No, I don’t mean in hours, we all know that a Story Point to Hours comparison is impossible. I mean, when you estimate how long a User Story might take, how do you decide on the number of Story Points? What’s your yardstick?
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Dealing with unfinished User Stories at the end of a Sprint
You get to the end of a sprint and find that you still have user stories that were not completed. Why does this happen? How should you deal with it? And how do you prevent it from happening again? This article addresses all of these questions.
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Story Points and estimating in Scrum. An exercise in confusion?
Estimating in Scrum uses a unit of measurement referred to as the Story Point. But why use Story Points instead of hours or days or any other well-known unit of time? Are we deliberately trying to obfuscate? In this article I look at the pros and cons of using Story Points and come to a surprising conclusion.
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