Scrum story points kit

Blake Williams and Tute Costa

At thoughtbot we prefer not to estimate with story points for user stories. Story points are a proxy for time, and if we need to know how many days a feature would take, we just talk in terms of time.

Some projects require us to estimate using story points, and when that happens, we bring our kit.

Here are some pictures of it in case it’s useful for your team too:

In case of scrum use arbitrary numbers below

Five arbitrary numbers

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