Exemplar Story

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Definition of Exemplar Story

An example Item used as a reference point for Estimation. For example, we could have exemplar Small, Medium, and Large Stories as reference points for Estimating Story Size or Effort.

See:

Effort [for a Story], The amount of time it actually took to complete a Story (get the Story to “Done”), and is usually measured in Hours or PersonDays. (Compare to Size [of a Story])
Size [of a Story] A measure of ‘how much’ Product was (or will be) produced by the Story. The Size of a Functional Story is typically based on the Story’s Intrinsic Difficulty, Ideal Effort,...

Examples

There needs to be an Exemplar Story; one that is well-understood by the Team and has a known size.

We were not sure what to size this story, so we referenced our Exemplar Story.

We compared our new story to our exemplar story so that we could decide how to best accomplish the work.

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