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That is one of the complications - one thinks developers should be smart as in abstract thinking so they should understand (just like all the other numbers humanity made up): "numbers we call story points are not having property to add them and they are not convertible to time".

*Properties of Whole Numbers:

    Whole numbers are closed under addition and multiplication.
    Zero is the additive identity element of the whole numbers.
    1 is the multiplicative identity element.
    It obeys the commutative and associative property of addition and multiplication.
    It satisfies the distributive property of multiplication over addition and vice versa.
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Why use a measure that creates this footgun? Why should our task estimation require this much abstract thinking? Why not invent the measure so that it's not misleading? Numbers generally have well-understood properties. Using them in a way where the properties don't apply is asking to be misunderstood.


And this is how the entire math gets done in 5 simple JIRA tasks. :D




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