Story Point Reality Check

A quick calculator to tell if a story is under-scored for project work.

Official Story Points (your system)

We’ll convert points to official hours using your org’s mapping.

Official Points → Hours (mapping)

1 →

2 →

3 →

5 →

8 →

13 →

21 →

1 pt ≈

Non-linear buckets + a linear “hours/point” for converting back to Realistic Points.

Meetings/Week (h)

ContextSwitchTax (%)

TestingEffort (%)

ReworkEffort (%)

Demo/ClientComm (%)

IntegrationOverhead (%)

RoleCoverageFactor (×)

>1.0 when one person is Dev+Tester+BA+Client wrangler.

Work Week (h)

Used to compute real focus hours/week.

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Official Hours (from points)

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Focus Hours/Week

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Realistic Hours

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Realistic Points (linear)

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Nearest Official Bucket

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Realistic Weeks

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Underscore Factor (×)

Enter values and hit Check It.

Formula: RealisticHours = OfficialHours × (1+Testing+Rework+Demo+Integration) × RoleCoverage. Focus = (WorkWeek–Meetings) × (1–ContextTax).