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story point

story point noun: in agile software development, a relative unit of measure denoting the amount of effort required to complete a task or user story.

Noun

story point (plural story points)

  1. In agile software development, a relative unit of measure denoting the amount of effort required to complete a task or user story.
    • Since this was a fairly easy task, I assigned it only 1 story point, but I gave the main form UI 5.

Forms of story point

pluralstory points

Origin of story point

From its derivation from user stories.

Questions about story point

What does story point mean?
Story point means in agile software development, a relative unit of measure denoting the amount of effort required to complete a task or user story.
What part of speech is story point?
Story point is a noun.
What is the plural of story point?
The plural of story point is story points.

Words near story point in the dictionary

  1. story editors
  2. story line
  3. story lines
  4. story of my life
  5. story of one's life
  6. story point
  7. story time
  8. story times
  9. story-poem
  10. story-poems
  11. story-teller

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