The Agile Daily Standup - AgileDad Are Story Points Helping Your Team?
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May 6, 2025 The podcast dives into the effectiveness of story points in agile teams, highlighting common estimation challenges. It raises concerns about teams struggling with incomplete work and inaccurate point estimates. Listeners learn about the importance of collaboration in task estimation and the risks of linking story points to time. The discussion advocates for experimenting with cycle time data to refine estimates, aiming for more accurate insights that enhance team performance.
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Story Points Measure Size Only
- Story points estimate relative size, not time or who is doing the work.
- Adjusting points based on developer skill or ideal days misses their purpose.
Analyze Story Point Effectiveness
- Export your team's completed story data and calculate average cycle time per story point group.
- Use this to assess how well story points relate to actual work duration on your team.
Small Stories Cause More Estimation Surprise
- Smaller story point estimates often have the biggest cycle time variation.
- Teams usually estimate larger stories more consistently than smaller ones.