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I suspect story points are perhaps the most miss-understood, abused and perhaps argumentative subject I come across (barring SAFe). Long ‘arguments’ within teams over if something is a 3SP or 5SP, Pressure from project managers and stakeholders for smaller estimates (As if making a story 5SP rather than 8SP will mean it’s delivered quicker)
Read MoreOne of the questions I probably hear more than any other is 'We want to increase velocity, how do we do it?' I'll leave you to guess who asks that question! but I'll give you a clue.... it's not the developers! or actually should I say it's not the Agile team! (but that's a whole other blog for another day)
Read MoreI find this technique works well where you have a medium to large sized product back-log... As a very rough rule of thumb anything under 25 items is probably manageable with Planning poker.... beyond this number is where Affinity Estimation can be a really useful tool in the Scrum Master's arsenal!
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