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| Criterion |  Agile Scrum |  Agile Ideal Days |  Agile Story Points |
|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When a team needs to work in a fixed delivery rhythm, it stabilizes cadence, responsibility, and feedback loops. It makes collaboration reliable across sprint boundaries. | When effort needs to be thought of as real working time, it offers a simple common denominator for comparison. It sorts work by value, risk, and delivery ability. The result is captured as Ideal Day Estimates, Assumption Notes, and Capacity Caveats. | When teams want to rate complexity rather than hours, it creates a shared, relative scale. It sorts work by value, risk, and delivery ability. The result is captured as Point Estimates, Reference Stories, and Velocity Data. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-4 Wochen je Sprint, laufend | 15-60 min | laufend, 1-5 min je Item |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 (Scrum Team) | 2-9 | 3-9 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Increment, Sprint Goal | Ideal Day Estimates, Assumption Notes, Capacity Caveats | Point Estimates, Reference Stories, Velocity Data |
Tags1 shared | AgileIterationCadence | EstimationEffortAgile | EstimationAgileMeasurement |
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