Estimating the backlog with Story points
Story points are the estimate size representing the size of a Story. All we need to know about a Story is whether it is a small Story or large Story. The Story points are relative numbers that different teams use for different strategies. The idea is to pick a small user Story covering the most portion of layers of the product or application and assign a number to it. For the rest of the stories, compare those with this Story and assign a relative number in terms of size.
We will see how we can estimate a Story with Story points in GreenHopper. Navigate to the board configuration screen, under Estimation tab configure the Estimation Statistics, and select the Story Points option as shown in the previous screenshot.
You can add Story points to a Story while creating the Story itself, as shown in the following screenshot.
The Story Points field is available to issue the types, Story and Epic by default. Update the custom field configurations in Jira to...
