Interview Question
Scrum Master/Technical Project Manager Interview
-Seattle, WA
Big Fish GamesHow would you explain story points to a team who's new to Agile/Scrum?
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Time vs effort.. teams get hung up on time based estimates. And not about the amount of effort it's going to take to accomplish a task/user story.
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It’s about demonstrating it to them and comparing the efficacy compare to other frameworks via dissecting a story vertically to the smallest size possible.
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I said I would talk to them about t-shirt sizing and try several ways to help them understand that story estimation has little to nothing to do with time, rather effort. I also explained that this was a challenging topic for a new team.
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Story points should be explained to a team that's new to agile, that it's an agreed upon estimate. Explaining to teams that it's the amount of
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