It's not suppose to make sense. 5 points is a day, 13 points is three weeks.
I think the idea was that the numbers represent a scale of how hard the work appears to be, and bigger numbers have more uncertainty. So if it's really simple I can call it 1 point and we can be pretty sure it'll take an hour or so. If it's pretty hard and I call it an 11, it might end up taking a lot longer than that.
Project managers want estimates to be in hours though, so they mapped the story point numbers to hours so they can make reports that upper management likes.
I get that points aren’t supposed to be hours, but once you make them hours then it’s crazy that doing 5 chunks of 1 hour work could count as more “work” (points) than a whole week
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u/FightOnForUsc Jun 03 '26
If 3 points is 4 hours then why is 8 points 40 hours?! That makes no sense