Visually Scaled Story Points (Explained)
What are Visually Scaled Story Points?
The Visually Scaled Story Points are a variant of the story points widget, designed to reduce cognitive load for teams² with diverse learning styles¹
What are the benefits of Visually Scaled Story Points?
Visual scaling allows team members to intuitively understand total points, relative weight, and score frequency without performing calculations.
Reduce cognitive load for teams with diverse learning styles
Quickly estimate effort using visual and spatial cues.
Keep the functionality of the intelligent canvas widget.
How can I use Visually Scaled Story Points Template?
Use this template to reduce mental effort for your team when using story points.
Copy Visually-scaled Story points to your template library
Understand when best to use scaled vs. uniform
See comparison usages Scaled vs. Unform
Understand how learning styles affect cognitive load
Find your learning style (◴ 5 min)
Understand team learning styles (◴ 5 min)
Who benefits from Visually Scaled Story Points?
Teams with a mix of learning styles (math, visual, auditory, kinesthetic) and want to be inclusive of different minds.
Individuals who need an intuitive sense of point totals and frequency without doing math.
Agile teams new to estimation (or) newly formed Sprint teams
Cross-functional teams.
Who does NOT benefit from Visually Scaled Story Points?
Uniform scale story points better for teams where:
The team is stable or have high efficiency with current processes
Teams where everyone has at least math learning style
Visually busy boards where eliminating visual clutter is needed.
¹ How do I know my Learning Style(s)?
The template contains 5 minute exercise to indicate your Learning Style(s) called “What’s your learning style?”. The exercise helps determine relative cognitive load (mental effort) for different tasks in agile teams.
² How does discovering learning styles help the team?
Understanding each team member's learning style(s) helps better allocate tasks between the team based on a cognitive effort by empathizing with diverse learning styles. It enables you to understand why some can talk and listen all day (auditory dominant), but fatigue quickly counting totals, and others fatigue quickly with meetings, but can run workshops on miro endlessly (visual dominant).
Where can you find different layouts?
This template contains horizontal, vertical, and clustered layouts. Add your favorite to your own templates.
You had me at scaled. I just need points.
Search Miroverse for "Just points." It's quick-access in board without all the rest of the template.
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