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What are Story Points?

C.S. Rhymes on February 29, 2020

I’ve always estimated development issues in hours or days but I recently created a new project in Jira and it only allowed me to use story points f...
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Jacob Baker

We as a team use both story points and time based estimates.

Stories are initially estimated in story points in order for a release and iterations to be planned, but then when we're down at the current iteration and have broken down the planned stories in to tasks we look to put a time estimate.

Time estimates are just that though: estimates not expectation.

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C.S. Rhymes

Hi Ryan, my site has an RSS feed and I’ve connected it to dev.to in my settings. When I add a new post to my website it adds it as a draft to dev.to automatically. It sets the canonical url but I don’t know what else it does differently to generate the “originally posted at” bit.