Story Points

A story point is a metric used in agile project management and development to estimate the difficulty of implementing a given user story, which is an abstract measure of effort required to implement it. In simple terms, a story point is a number that tells the team about the difficulty level of the story. Difficulty could be related to complexities, risks, and efforts involved.

Story points are a useful unit of measurement in agile, and an important part of the user story mapping process. A number is assigned to each story to estimate the total effort involved in bringing a feature or functionality to life.