User Story Points Really!? The hard truth of software development
1. Introducing the beauty of User Story Points
When it comes to software development with Agile Scrum, user story points are really handy!
For those who are new to Agile Scrum, let’s do a short recap on the role of user story point in it.
In Agile Scrum, we breakdown what we wanted to develop into user stories and consolidate it into a list of requirement called the product backlog, like the diagram below.
From the product backlog, the team would estimate the efforts and assign points to user stories. These points are used to plan the work to be completed in the upcoming sprint (usually 2 weeks) and subsequent sprints.
More importantly, it can be used in a burndown chart to track the velocity and forecast whether delivery timeline is on track.
On top of that, user story points can be used as a gauge on developers’ workload and facilitate the…