[lelanthran]

> Story points and sprints are a self-calibrating tool that will give you an advance warning (nicely visualized in burn-down charts) if an estimate you might have given a middle manager will be missed.

> You do not "decide" how many points fit in a sprint, you just work at a sustainable pace and measure how many points fit in a sprint.

I don't know how you can use both "sprint"[1] and "sustainable" in the same post with a straight face.

[1] A sprint, by definition, is an unsustainable burst of speed. The word "unsustainable" is literally in the definition.

[jredwards]

You're arguing that the entire system is invalid because one of the concepts is poorly named?

[vincentkriek]

This is turning into a discussion about naming, which is important. I think the sprints are maybe wrongly worded, but I struggle to find a better term.

User stories are not actual stories with a plots as well, but the idea makes sense

[lelanthran]

Maybe, but the people you are telling the word "sprint" to do not interpret it as "iteration" or "phase", they are interpreting it as "unsustainable burst of speed".

When you tell people the word "story", they know exactly what you mean, because the word story is used all the time for things without plots ("So, what's your story?" comes to mind).

We frequently use the word story to mean "your side of things"; in civil litigation for example.

[pas]

we call them cycles (weekly cycles, or bi-weekly cycles, mostly they are product planning cycles, and also usually the basic time interval after the previous planing assumptions should be checked/revised, etc.)

// linear also calls them cycles, https://linear.app/features/plan#cycles , but linear is a bit meh