Questions tagged [story-points]
For questions about applying or interpreting relative measures of work-effort, known as "story points," to user stories or project milestones.
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How should we manage/point ad-hoc support queries that come in after the sprint has started?
I've come across a slight dilemma which, as far as I could see, has not been answered in Scrum blog posts on the interwebs, nor in this StackExchange.
We started our sprint and a day later one of our ...
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DEV & QA Story Point Total
If dev thinks a story is 3 and QA says, it's a 5. You don't add them together to get 8, correct? I've always had the impression that whatever the consensus is, that's what the point value will be. ...
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Subtasks vs Tasks for Sprint backlog
My question relates specifically to project management using Jira by Atlassian.
My product backlog mostly consists of user stories, since this is the most useful to my non-technical product owner.
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One story estimated as 8 SP and multiple developers work on it at the same time [closed]
Let´s suppose there is a story of 8 story points, and several developers are working on it simultaneously. Any take on these types of cases? Should be fine? Could this be considered for completion in ...
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Story Pointing User Stories
I have a question about Agile and Story pointing. I was told that user stories should always only be assigned to 1 person for the life of the story. So, you create the story and assign it to a ...
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Story points or number of stories
I feel that many of the estimates that the team provides during sprint planning are very large and they are reluctant to break stories down as they’re just itching to get out of the meeting and start ...
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How can I close an Epic with open defects?
I have an Epic. Some defects are closed, but one defect is still opened and deferred until the next release. How can I close the current Epic since one ticket is still not closed?
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Capture burned (story) points for a partially complete task moved to next sprint
If a sprint starts and a story has an estimation of e.g. 8 and at the end of the sprint the story for some reason has not completed, if I move it to the next sprint with the story points updated e.g. ...
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What are valid reasons for increasing the story points for a user story during or after a Sprint?
While estimating user stories, we are assigning story points based on complexity. If we get unexpected situations like server unreachable, network down, dependent items, or delays, can we increase the ...
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Story Points given by task owner leads to disagreement
Hypothetically speaking
There's one big project that requires involvement from different members - infrastructure, backend, frontend, security, etc.
The members are working a flavour of Scrum using ...
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Is it a good idea to show a 'story points by developer' graph at retrospectives?
I am part of an agile team in a large organisation. At our fortnightly retrospective a graph is shown of how many story points each developer has completed over the course of the fortnight.
We are not ...
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How to estimate a story point, that involves Mobile team and backend team
I am Managing a mobile app product. it contains backend team, design team, and flutter (mobile) team.
User stories are usually consisting of subtasks, that involves both, backend, design and mobile ...
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How to convert (volume of work, risk, complexity, uncertainty) to story points?
Disclaimer: I'm a developer, so I don't claim to be thoroughly knowledgeable of agile practices, thus I may not always use the correct words and terms. Please correct me if needed.
Agile teams often ...
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What role should story points play in sprint planning?
I am the scrum master of a team that estimates its user stories using story points. The development team consists of backend and frontend developers.
Currently, what I am doing during every sprint ...
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How should I deal with common dependencies when estimating stories in Scrum?
There's something that has always bothered me with Scrum. Hopefully I can get some insight here.
With Scrum, we try to break the backlog down in vertical slices. Let's say stories A and B. These ...
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How do you know a half of a Sprint Backlog is already done?
During an interview I was asked - how do you understand that the team has already completed a half of the Sprint Backlog?
How do we do this? Was I supposed to say that we need to sum up all the user ...
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Using burndown chart to estimate the completion date of a Scrum project
I sometimes read about using the burndown chart to estimate the date when the Scrum project ends. It's often described like this:
estimate all features of the product and sum them up (...
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How to add story points to tasks in Jira Cloud
I'm not sure if this forum is best for an administrative question on jira but here goes.
I currently have an instance set up on Jira Cloud and I'm unable to configure my tasks to show story points.
I ...
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Is it ok to assign story point with a few developers if new task is added during a sprint?
We are not able to gather into a company lounge as usual due to the virus thing, so it's impossible to get all team members to join the planning poker session. Some work in a remote locationr and the ...
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Selecting ( "Cherry picking" ) certain Agile practices as IT team works remotely? Or is it All Or Nothing with Agile?
Due to the covid-19 pandemic, our IT developers and IT managers work from home.
Furthermore, and in different time zones and different locations. Therefore, daily Scrum meetings are Not really ...
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How to calculate Schedule Variance in Scrum with story points?
I am trying to find a way to calculate the schedule variance for the scrum. I was trying to found a similar question here on StackExchange, but Yet I didn't found any. So I have posted it here.
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How do you estimate a task/story for an analyst in SCRUM?
Do you estimate tasks for analysts? These tasks may include, for example, work with business requirements, producing documents that help the development team, sometimes write user stories descriptions....
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When estimating with story points should developers and QA provide their estimate based on their individual idea of complexity?
The question was as follows (and from the QA member of the team): Should I think about how complex it is from a QA AND a developer's perspective? Or just from a QA's perspective?
Since story points ...
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Any research of the accuracy of Story Points?
One of the main questions about Story Points is what is their accuracy. Has any research or survey been performed to analyse their precision?
For example what is the accuracy of the completion date ...
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Definition of a Story Point [closed]
As far as I'm aware there's no definition of Story Points and how to compare them. Each person in a team may have his personal understanding of the correlation between an effort and Story Points. Isn'...
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Slowing down of an agile team as the development progresses
Let's consider an agile software project.
In the beginning of a project each Story can be implemented quite quickly because the code base is small, there're few dependecies between different parts ...
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Story points estimation vs completing a Sprint
Estimation that is based on Story points is pretty unreliable, but still the Scrum team should complete a Sprint backlog on time - isn't it a flaw in the Scrum process?
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How can we persuade team members to estimate in story points instead of hours?
We use story points to estimate our user stories. We find that story points solve the problem of underestimating the amount of actual work which is required to complete a task, as it takes the ...
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Is it better to deliver many low-value stories or few high-value stories?
I'm unfamiliar with Agile/Scrum (not sure which is the right term here), and I have what seems like a very basic question, but I can't seem to find an answer online.
Here is an exaggerated ...
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Story acceptance vs. ability to have potentially deliverable SW ready at sprint end
for some time now the team, product owner and me (SM) have been busy with one task: the story acceptance and the ability to get potentially deliverable SW at the end of a sprint.
What sounds simple ...
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When choosing the largest and smallest stories in a backlog for estimation how does it impact each sprint?
An article I came across suggested that we should pick the largest and smallest story in the prioritised backlog and relatively estimate the remaining stories. This makes sense. However, I was ...
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How can you estimate a spike story?
We are working on a technology of which the team is not sure how would it go. I would like to estimate and timebox this story. However, the scrum team has to have goal or a shippable product at the ...
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Velocity calculation based on number of user stories completed in a sprint
In one of the projects, the velocity calculation is done based on the number of user stories that the team is delivering in each sprint.
They are using story points to size but still the velocity is ...
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What metrics can we generate from t-shirt sizes (rather than story points) when estimating user stories?
If I am using T-shirt sizing for my user story estimates, what metrics I can measure and report? We currently use a Sprint burn-down chart when using story points.
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SCRUM - Sizing in sprint. Do I need to use story points in a sprint if the duration of the project phase itself is only 3-4 months?
In my current company, DSDM is being practiced.
For a new project that we are starting, there are no backlogs yet and it is decided we will be executing the project in sprints.
The duration of the ...
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Story Points flaw?
Forgive me f this has been asked before, I read some similar questions (linked below), but didn't find the answer I was looking for.
Our team is fairly new to them and trying to figure out how to ...
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Carrying items over from one sprint to the next
Question: Carrying items over from one sprint to the next
Answer: Yes
Scenario: I am a new scrum master on a team and we have just completed our first sprint. I was not here when the team planned ...
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How to treat users stories which were almost completed at the previous sprint? [duplicate]
How to treat users stories which were almost completed at previous sprint but didn't meet Definition of Done due to testers were late for some reason.
Suppose one of those stories was 5 story points, ...
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How can story points be "non linear" in relative size
I've read in several places that story points are not necessarily linear.
i.e., an "8 point" task is not the same as two 4 point tasks and so on.
I totally get the argument about these being an ...
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When does a Scrum Team assign story points to the stories in the Scrum methodology?
I am in the process of learning Scrum. I got stuck with a question: on which stage does the Scrum Team assign story points to the user stories?
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How can I measure the effective team work per iteration?
I have a team of 4 developers and 1 QA. My workflow in Jira is:
Backlog -> Analysis -> In Development -> QA Ready -> QA Complete -> Done
Every sprint (1 week) all issues get into QA Ready stage (QA ...
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Hot swapping stories
Is it acceptable to swap out stories from the current sprint to the backlog and replace them with stories of the same estimate size from the backlog, because of changing priorities in the business?
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How to break down an 8 point story into smaller stories in Scrum?
My team and I are struggling with breaking down a user story that we have estimated to be 8 points.
The user story is :
"A user can sign up to the app using a registration form so that he is
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When working closely with sales, does storypoints still make sense vs time estimations
The main idea behind using story points is to take away focus on the absolute time/cost of a task and look at the relative sizing vs the other tasks you have in front of you.
This has worked well in ...
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Using the Stacey matrix to capture agile metrics
I recently encountered the Stacey matrix in an answer by
Stephan Weinhold. After looking at the linked image provided & doing a bit more reading that describes it as a way to characterize ...
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How handle the change in baseline story
We follow Agile Scrum. We had identified a baseline story for story point estimation and used it for many sprints. We had a velocity calculated. After sometime, the team found that the baseline is not ...
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If SAFe must be continuously calibrated and measured in ideal days, why does the framework say recalibration is unnecessary?
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SAFe says you don't need to recalibrate estimation, but requires estimates and other metrics to be normalized across one or more Agile Release Trains. Context, question rationale, and the ...
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JIRA - Story Points & Time Tracking
I've read various questions and answers and I'm really struggling to setup up a Project/Sprint/Story/SubTask to get what we think we need.
In terms of long term planning I've sold my team on the idea ...
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Alternatives to estimating in hours/story points
We are looking to change our approach on estimates. Now we estimate in hours/days, but we would like to change this and make our process more flexible.
We are working based on Scrum, where stories are ...
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What could be potential harm of giving points to chores or technical debts?
Recently our team has decided to give points to the chores. They had an argument that:
Velocity defines team's capacity to deliver the work and if chores are not counted in velocity it won't reflect ...
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