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📖 Story Points Guide
Story points are an agile estimation tool used to measure the relative complexity of a task — not the time it takes or the number of steps involved.
💡 Think of it this way: a task that's "twice as complex" gets roughly twice the points, even if it takes different amounts of time for different people.
The Fibonacci Scale
We use Fibonacci numbers because they reflect how uncertainty grows with complexity:
Points
Meaning
1
Trivial — well-understood, almost no thinking needed
2
Simple — straightforward, minimal unknowns
3
Moderate — some moving parts, but solvable
5
Complex — multiple considerations, some unknowns
8
Very complex — significant unknowns, consider splitting
13
Huge — too complex to estimate confidently, break it down
Key Principles
✅ Relative, not absolute — compare tasks to each other. "Is this harder than that 3-point task?"
✅ Complexity, not time — a task that takes 2 hours of easy typing might be a 1. A 30-minute research question with unknowns might be a 5.
✅ When in doubt, go higher — it's better to overestimate than to be caught off guard by hidden complexity.
⚠️ 8+ points? That's a signal to decompose the task into smaller, more manageable pieces.