User stories - size of story points

How to improve estimation with story points?

Story size before sprint

  • Keeping stories small is very important.
  • Keeping them substantially smaller in size than the Sprint length is very important.
  • Keeping them about the same size is somewhat important.

Story size after sprint

  • When something takes /more time/ than estimated, there is learning
  • to be done. When it takes /less time/, not so much.