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If you have worked with agile for a while, or have worked with a coach that has worked with mature teams, you will sometimes hear the question “why don't we burn-down story points instead of tasks?”
In fact, there is no problem in using story points as a burn down instead of hours, but in general I've found it to be a practice for more mature teams who are used to making and meeting commitments. We don't usually start that way for a number of reasons:
But as said, if you have a team that does not exhibit the problems and issues - they commit and deliver as team to small slices of end user value - then there is no problem to burn stories. Some teams as an interim step do the tasking to make sure these things are being addressed and then burn stories to make sure they are delivering value of a regular cadence. Others burn both (eg Jira has a chart that shows both a story and task burn down, one on each access). In fact there is a benefit in that you hopefully get teams to focus fully on stories, delivery one at a time, per the ideal scrum approach.
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