Re: Story sizes and productivity gains

Hello Paul,

Please describe the process that this 'productivity measure' will be input to.  What is its purpose?

chet

Thursday, June 21, 2012, 1:27:06 PM, you wrote:

  
I saw a presentation by Scott Downey last night at Agile SoCal on hyperproductive Scrum teams. Downey
defines a hyperproductive team as a team that achieves a 500% increase over its initial velocity, as
measured in story points.

I've seen Ron Jeffries recommend not using story points, instead sizing stories consistently around a
couple of days, and counting stories instead of points. That's always seemed like a good idea to me, but
after Downey's presentation, I was trying to think about how to measure productivity gains when sizing
stories at a couple of days. 

To take a simple example, if I can do a story every two days, then I can do five stories in a two-week sprint. By
definition (story = 2 days), I will continue to complete five stories per sprint forever. In order to
demonstrate improvement over time, I would need a new measurement, e.g., value, right?

Any ideas on how to measure team productivity over time using consistent story sizes?

Thanks...

Paul Epps

--

-- 
Best regards,
 Chet Hendrickson                          mailto:lists <at> hendricksonxp.com
 Check out our upcoming CSM Plus courses  <at> 
http://hendricksonxp.com/index.php?option=com_eventlist&Itemid=28

[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]