Story Point Glossary Definition

Term Story Point
Definition

A Story Point is a relative estimate used by some Agile teams to express the size or effort of a user story or backlog item.

Context & Usage

Story points support planning and forecasting but are not standardized hours and should not be compared carelessly across teams.

Related concepts include Backlog and User Story.

Agile teams use this concept during backlog refinement, planning, delivery, review, or retrospective conversations, depending on the method and cadence in use.

Related concepts include Agile, Scrum, Sprint, Backlog, User Story and Minimum Viable Product.

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