Define: "Story Points" in Business
High risk of unnecessary meetings
"Refuse to assign points to infrastructure tasks. Tell them routing protocols do not fit into their cute Fibonacci sequence."
A unit of measure used in Agile domains to express the estimated effort required to implement a backlog item.
What does "Story Points" actually mean?
"Completely made-up numbers used by project managers to weaponize your productivity against you."
"We need to increase our overall story points delivered this sprint."
"The PM gave configuring the entire Next-Gen firewall three story points because he thinks it is just 'plugging in a box'."
By The Chief Waste Officer
18 years in the corporate trenches quantifying waste so you don't have to.
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