0In Agile, story points are used to estimate the effort or complexity of a task, rather than directly converting them to hours. However, some teams find it useful to establish an approximate relationship between story points and hours for better planning.
A common approach is to map story points to a range of hours, for example:
- 1 Story Point: ~4 to 6 hours
- 2 Story Points: ~6 to 12 hours
- 3 Story Points: ~12 to 16 hours
- 5 Story Points: ~16 to 24 hours
This is just an approximation and can vary depending on the team's velocity, experience, and complexity of the work.
Example:
Let's say you have a 2-week sprint with 3 developers, each working 6 hours per day.
- Total available hours per developer = 6 hours/day × 10 days = 60 hours
- Total available hours for the team = 60 hours × 3 developers = 180 hours
Now, suppose your team has agreed that 1 story point is roughly equal to 5 hours of work.
- For 180 hours, you can estimate how many story points your team can handle: 180 hours5 hours/story point=36 story points\frac{180 \, \text{hours}}{5 \, \text{hours/story point}} = 36 \, \text{story points}5hours/story point180hours=36story points
So, in this case, the team can handle around 36 story points in the sprint.
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