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Agile Estimation: 9 Reasons Why You Should Use Story Points

by Avienaash Shiralige 12 Comments

A common question about estimating with points is, “Why Points?  Why not in Days? Finally I need to do planning so I need to convert points to Days. Why this additional level of indirection?

In-fact I find story points as a good distraction to the team. Let me go over why having this “additional layer of indirection” provided by story points can be very useful.

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