Scrum

Estimation

This is a helpful table for estimate stories. If you don’t have a reference story, or other strategy to estimate a story just go through this table every time.

	1	2	3	5	8	13
Feature changes	Small	Small	Not significant	Significant	New functionality	New functionality
Solution	Known	Known	Known	Partially known	Unknown	Unknown
Complexity/volume	Low	Medium/Low	Medium	Medium/High	High	Very High
Architecture changes	None	None	Small adjustment	Small adjustment	Significant changes	Big changes
Previous similar work	Yes	Yes	Yes, but low experience	Yes, but low experience	No	No
New technologies	No	No	Maybe	Maybe	Yes	Yes
Testing complexity	Low	Medium/Low	Medium	Medium/High	High	Unknown
Dependencies	None	Internal IT team	Internal IT team	Internal IT team	External providers	External providers
Security	No impact	No impact	new access rights	new access roles	new security concept	Unknown impact
Documentation	Already exist, no adjustment	Already exist, no adjustment	Already exist, some adjustment	Already exist, a lot adjustments	Non existent	Non existent