March 2004
Intermediate to advanced
304 pages
6h 12m
English
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Chapter 8. Estimating User Stories
No project can go very long before someone starts asking “When will you be done?” The best approach for estimating stories would be one that:
- allows us to change our mind whenever we have new information about a story
- works for both epics and smaller stories
- doesn’t take a lot of time
- provides useful information about our progress and the work remaining
- is tolerant of imprecision in the estimates
- can be used to plan releases
Story Points
An approach that satisfies each of these goals is to estimate in story points. A nice feature of story points is that each team defines them as they see fit. One team may decide to define a story point as an ideal day of work (that is, a day without any interruptions whatsoever—no ...