Thank you Dan -- explaining points is difficult and you did it well. It's a very powerful estimation technique.
-Toby On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 5:22 PM, Dan Garry <[email protected]> wrote: > In Agile methodologies, story points are arbitrary unit [1] of measurement > for the difficulty of completing a story. The number of points a story has > correspond, roughly, to the amount of time the story will take to complete. > Story points are decided by the team of engineers implementing the story. > > You might find this enlightening: > http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/182057/why-do-we-use-story-points-instead-of-man-days-when-estimating-user-stories > > Dan > > [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbitrary_unit > > On 16 October 2014 17:15, Pine W <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I apologize if this is an elementary question, but what are points used >> to quantify when doing analytics development and how are points assigned? >> >> Pine >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Analytics mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics >> >> > > > -- > Dan Garry > Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps > Wikimedia Foundation > > _______________________________________________ > Analytics mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics > >
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