Forget Story Points, Why Your Team Should Size Agile Tasks Using Nando's PERi-ometer
If you’ve spent more than five minutes in a sprint planning session, you’ve likely already endured the endless debate over whether a ticket is a 3 or a 5 pointer.
We’ve all been there:
“Well, it’s an 8 if Dave does it, but a 3 if Sarah does it.”
“Is Fibonacci measuring complexity, effort, or risk?”
“Can we average the story points to 4.2?” (no, just, no.)
Story points and T-shirt sizes were intended to break us free from time-based estimation. However, over time, they’ve often devolved into another form of rigid, low-context bureaucracy failing to accomplish the goal we had for it.