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The Agile Enterprise
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The Agile Enterprise

by David Asch
January 2024
Intermediate to advanced
174 pages
4h 1m
English
Business Expert Press
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CHAPTER 6

Measuring Success

Although Agile provides teams a way to measure the success of their sprints, these internal tools, like story points, aren’t intended for management’s eyes. Instead, objectives and metrics provide a better way for those who don’t belong to a team to recognize progress or lack thereof.

Story Points in Detail

As a brief refresher, story points are the numbers assigned to stories to assess their relative size. Although a story size may obliquely translate to its implementation time, story points are intentionally abstract. Story point estimation aims to correctly size stories relative to one another. Complex stories may receive more points than simple stories. Two stories with the same implementation complexity should ...

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