The Easiest Way to Explain Story Points - Corgi Edition
The Easiest Way to Explain Story Points - Corgi Edition
A simple answer to ‘What are Story Points?’. After reading, you can teach others how they work.
I have to confess my love-hate relationship with Story Points. Story Points are riddled with misconceptions. Some of the common misunderstandings I hear when starting with a new team:
“Story Points are about complexity.”
“How many days is 1 Story Point?”
“You shouldn’t Story Point bugs or things that don’t have any immediate business value.”
“Let’s take the average of all Story Point estimates during Planning Poker.”
Almost every team I start working with suffers from Story Point confusion. I believe this is not because Story Points are so difficult to understand, but because they are difficult to explain.
This leads to each person having their own and different understanding of Story Points. I believe this can be prevented by explaining Story Points by using Corgis.
And to that purpose, I’ve created a playful PDF you can share over Slack, Teams, or any collaboration channel of choice, so you can easily spread the Corgi Story Point wisdom! :)
That’s all folks! I hope you enjoyed the Corgi edition of the easiest way to explain Story Points.