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Since 2005 we have worked with clients to apply the Scrum framework and to help scale agile development to product groups involving from a few hundred to a few thousand people, in multiple sites. This is organized as large-scale Scrum frameworks 1 and 2, summarized in this article and elaborated on in our two-volume book series on very large-scale agile development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Software development success, estimation, and measured value continue to challenge projects and organizations today. Schedule and budget seem predictable, perhaps unjustifiably in light of the inability to capture product size expectations early and often. Function Points (FP), Use Case Points (UCP), and Story Points (SP) are three approaches for establishing size (or size of effort). Each of these is applied in a case study to identify similarities and differences. The measure of preference is left for the discerning reader. Limited details about the project, its team size, duration, and goals are intentionally excluded from the research since the intended focus is on comparing the project's measurements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]