Advanced Techniques
There are other Advanced Techniques to estimate story points as discussed below:
- Planning Poker: Planning poker is an advanced method for Story Point estimation techniques. In the Scrum development team members privately choose a card with several story points that the team member has estimated for a user story specified. Once all team members choose the cards, the cards are revealed with story points and the team discusses the differences and reaches a consensus.
- Dot Voting: The Dot Voting method is another option to estimate story points. Each team member is given a limited number of dots (stickers or markers). Using the dots, the team members can vote on the user story based on the complexity of the story points. The stories with the most dots are assigned higher story points.
- Bucket System: In this bucket system mechanism user stories are categorized into predefined buckets of different size ranges (such as 0-1, 2-3, 5-8, etc.), and the user stories are placed in the appropriate bucket based on the relative size. The team discusses the size range given and finalizes it.
Story Points and Velocity in Scrum
Developing a software application or any product requires time and measuring the total time required to complete a specified amount of work requires some metrics. In Agile Scrum development methodology, there are two key metrics namely Story Point and Velocity, used to estimate a piece of work and measure the total amount of work completed in a Sprint.
Table of Content
- Story Points
- Common Methods of Story Points
- Velocity
- Steps in Calculating Velocity
- Uses of Velocity
- Relationship between Story Points and Velocity
- Advanced Techniques
- Conclusion
- FAQ’s
In this article let us discuss Story Points and Velocity in more detail.