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Story points

Meaning in product management, with examples

nounCommon term

In product management, story points means: A unit that agile teams use to estimate the relative size of a user story, combining effort, complexity and uncertainty instead of counting hours.

In Turkish: hikaye puanı, story point

How it is used

Often given on a Fibonacci-like scale: 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13. Engineers estimate story points, for example with planning poker; the PM should not set them. The number of points a team usually finishes in a sprint is called its velocity.

Example sentences

  1. The team gave the export story eight story points because of the unknowns in the API.

  2. We usually finish about 30 story points per sprint.

Common collocations

  • estimate in story points
  • assign story points
  • story point estimate
  • velocity
  • user storyA short description of a feature written from the user's point of view, usually in the form “As a [type of user], I want [goal] so that [benefit].”
  • sprintA fixed, short period, usually one to four weeks, in which a team builds and finishes an agreed set of work before planning the next one.
  • backlog refinementRegular work in which the product owner and the team review upcoming backlog items, clarify them, split large ones and estimate them so they are ready for a sprint.
  • epicA large piece of work that is too big for one sprint and is broken down into several smaller user stories, such as “Multi-currency support”.

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