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Original Post: Better Predictability with Smaller User Stories
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User stories and their size are often the basis for planning a Sprint in Scrum. You can use a relative estimation and planning poker or a more classical approach to define the effort for each user stories. As such, they are also the basis for the metrics of progress and the velocity of the Scrum team.
In this blog post, Doug Brophy presents his opinion that the importance of large user stories in the backlog decrease the reliability of the team velocity (trend) and its usefulness for planning next iterations. The ...