USING T-SHIRT SIZES FOR USER STORY ESTIMATION

Posted on March 14th, 2008 by

There are a number of story point scales used for estimating user stories on the product backlog.
An effective scale to use for your estimation is T-Shirt sizes.
T-SHIRT SIZES
Size                                    Points to Allocate
XS (Extra Small)                   1
S  (small)                                2
M  (medium)                         4
L  (Large)                               8
XL (extra large)                   16
XXL(extra extra large)       32
T-Shirt sizes are nonlinear so the bigger the “shirt” [...]

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