Why does Agile use the Fibonacci sequence?
The Fibonacci sequence can be found in nature and in a variety of disciplines. It's been used to explain plant growth, estimate population expansion, simulate virus outbreaks, and forecast financial market behaviour. But how does this relate to Agile planning?
In essence, Fibonacci in Agile provides teams and project managers with a practical manner to approach story point estimates.
A user story's size, complexity, and effort are represented by story points. Each story point gets a number from the Fibonacci scale. The greater the number, the more difficult the plot point is to fulfil and the longer time it will take.
In Agile, how may Fibonacci be used?
There are a few different methods for calculating story length in points. The product owner or manager often sits down with the team to estimate user stories using the procedures below:
Each team member assesses the task's size using the Fibonacci scale.
To prevent being swayed by each other's estimates, everyone in the team shares their numbers at the same time.
They go over the data until they agree on each assignment and user story together.
Following that, each user story is assigned to a bucket that corresponds to a Fibonacci number.
