Adventures in Project Management

The Story point game is a 30 minute game to teach the basics of story point estimation individually or in a group. 

 

It is ideal for your 3rd or 4th sprint planning session, once you have already got the hang of running your daily standups, sprint reviews, planning and retrospectives.

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Once you have completed the game, use what you have learned to story point the tasks you have included in your next sprint.  At the end of the sprint, count how many story points you actually delivered then use this as a guide to how many story points you should load into the following sprint.  After a few sprints of this approach your team will become very good at judging the capacity they can deliver each sprint.