What Are Story Points in Agile? (Agile Estimation Explained)

Story points are one of the most widely used techniques for Agile estimation, but many teams misunderstand how they work.

In this video, Mike Cohn explains what story points are, why Agile teams use them, and how relative estimation helps teams make better product decisions.

🔗 Read the companion blog post: https://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/blog/what-are-story-points

🔗 Learn more about our Estimating with Story Points Course: https://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/training/courses/estimating-with-story-points


Chapters
00:00 Story Points Defined
00:12 How Story Points Work
00:20 Story Points are Relative
00:34 Ratios Matter
00:49 Estimate the Effort
1:15 How volume of work affects effort
2:15 How risk/uncertainty affects effort
5:00 How Complexity affects effort
5:42 Why else you should everything to get an item to done in a story point estimate