Story points

Summary:

configurable point system

Story points

Mark (guest) 16 Jun 2016 08:18

Hi and let me first off thank you for this small and elegant tool. I am new to product ownership and the scrum team as a whole is new to the whole concept, so that we are currently in the process of finding the best system for our needs. One thing we have found, is that our points system is different to the options you provide. Ideally I would like to be able to give any story an arbitratry amount of points as estimated by the scrum team. Is this something you could maybe offer?

Thanks and regards from Germany

Re: Story points

Adam Polczyk 13 Jul 2016 11:01

Hi Mark,

Thanks for the compliments regarding the tool. Really happy to see that people are still finding it useful after so many years!

In response to your question… no. Sorry. Two reasons…

Firstly, my focus is currently on my new initiative called team-sense.co.uk …feel free to check it out! :D

Secondly, I do not think that what you are asking for would really help, unless maybe you can convince me otherwise with an example? :)

The purpose of using a fixed point scheme (e.g. Fibonacci or geometric) is to simplify the sizing activity for the team, by reducing their options and helping them to reach a consensus faster.

Story sizing is imprecise by nature. We need size estimates that are just good enough and obtained with the minimum of sizing effort.

If people can choose any number, there is a danger that the team will waste effort debating the precise number when a rough size would be quite good enough.

Better for the team to be discussing the work, rather than the size :)

Hope this is of some help…

Adam

Henry (guest) 01 Dec 2016 16:48

This tool is pretty awesome! It would be nice if the Story Descriptions are also exported to CSV, instead of just the Story Name. Or is that already possible and I just missed a setting?

Adam Polczyk 19 Dec 2016 10:33

Hi Henry!

Thanks for the positive feedback and the excellent suggestion. Glad you are finding the tool useful :)

To be honest, I can't remember if this is configurable or not - I'll take a look.

Maybe it is time to open source the code! :D

Cheers!

Adam