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What are story points in Agile? Learn how they work, why they matter, and how to use them for better planning, productivity, and team collaboration.

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So with relative estimation you are always comparing the item you want to estimate, the cherry 🍒 in this case, with other items you have already estimated and asking if it is the same size as the strawberry 🍓, the apple 🍏 or watermelon 🍉?

### 'A unitless scale', what does that mean?
Unlike the meter scale, where 1 meter is defined as one ten-millionth the distance from the equator to the North Pole, a unitless scale does not correspond to a fixed, universally defined quantity. 

This means:
> one story point for one team is likely not the same as one story point for other teams.

So if someone is trying to compare teams based on story points completed per sprint, then feel free to share this article 😉

## How do story points translate to time? 
We still need to answer how story points translate to time.
In the next post, [What is agile velocity](/blog/what-is-agile-velocity/), we will answer this question by introducing the concept of velocity.

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