Glossary
Story points
A unit of relative effort used to size software work instead of raw hours.
Story points are a relative measure of the effort, complexity, and uncertainty in a piece of software work. Instead of guessing exact hours, teams compare a task to known reference work and assign points, which produces more honest, comparable estimates over time.
Points capture three things at once: how much work it is, how complex it is, and how risky or unknown it is. A simple form might be 1-2 points; a payments integration with edge cases might be 13.
StackLift prices delivery in story points so cost maps to deliverable complexity, not to time spent - which keeps estimates predictable and removes the incentive to pad hours.
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