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Could be today could be next year
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I literally would not work for a company if they made me do story points.
We do have a scope rule which is intentionally ambiguous, but the idea is a ticket ought not take more than 3 days, and some can be quicker. We expect the average time to meet our velocity and prioritize accordingly. If an effort seems like it will take longer we try to divide it into smaller tickets.
There may be like 5 tickets a year where this doesn't hold true and we are ok with it. Nothing to be religious about.
The other issue is the amount of points it is totally depends on who does the work! It's a garbage system to estimate work. Makes people think they have some sort of idea that is more misleading and harmful than just saying "I don't know exactly but you can expect it to get done promptly because we've taken proper steps to analyze and break down the work to be bite sized and delivered consistently."
@CountVon @soloner In our company every person in the team (dev, qa, doc writer, po) is estimating the story points in secret, then we reveal them and mostly take the average. Our experience is that we all are mostly in the same range.