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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