Pointing Map while Development

Point Estimate Description	Effort Estimate	Points
Defects and incident response	0 – 8 hours	3 pts
Well known work	0 – 8 hours	3 pts
Somewhat well thought out, maybe risky or in high critical area Simple change but in an area of code that this known to be spaghetti so more regression testing will be needed since change in one place often can make something else fail Complex business rules involved Large amount of data creation and staging needed	9 – 24 hours	5 pts
Not quite as well known Integration, 3rd party (data being pushed/received from another team)	25 – 40 hours	8 pts
Work that has never been done before Any user story initially sized al XL should be decomposed to smaller, more manageable stories	40+ hours	13 pts

While pointing, we'll see the estimate for both Dev & QA effort for a story in terms of hours. For example, for a particular story, an individual thinks that development will take 10 hours and testing effort will be 5 hours. The total will be 15 hours which will be 5 points. This individual points 5 points for this story.

If a story is pointed as 13 points, then we would decompose it into smaller ones.