Monday, November 2, 2009

What else is wrong with Story Points as a time unit?

There is one another point against considering a story point as a certain period of time (e.g. half a day). It is difficult to use special planning cards for a planning session because their values are like 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 20, etc. but the time in other hand is linear. So the problem is what to do if we estimate that something should take 17 days?