• A relative unit of measure used in agile software development to estimate the effort, complexity, and uncertainty required to complete a user story or task. Rather than measuring time directly, story points consider factors such as technical difficulty, amount of work, and risk, typically using a scale like the Fibonacci sequence (“1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13”). Teams assign story points through collaborative estimation techniques such as planning poker, establishing their own baseline for what constitutes each point value.

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