In Agile methodologies, story points are arbitrary unit [1] of measurement for the difficulty of completing a story. The number of points a story has correspond, roughly, to the amount of time the story will take to complete. Story points are decided by the team of engineers implementing the story.

You might find this enlightening: http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/182057/why-do-we-use-story-points-instead-of-man-days-when-estimating-user-stories

Dan

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbitrary_unit

On 16 October 2014 17:15, Pine W <wiki.pine@gmail.com> wrote:

I apologize if this is an elementary question, but what are points used to quantify when doing analytics development and how are points assigned?

Pine

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