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| Criterion |  Agile Story Points |  Engineering Goal Question Metric |
|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | 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. | Helps clarify technical problems, hypotheses, and next steps in concrete terms. It breaks a technical problem into testable parts. The result is captured as a GQM table and metric briefs. |
Complexitysame | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | laufend, 1-5 min je Item | 90-180 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-9 | 3-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Point Estimates, Reference Stories, Velocity Data | GQM Table, Metric Profiles |
Tags1 shared | EstimationAgileMeasurement | MetricsMeasurementEngineeringAlignment |
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