> I've seen "story points" be totally useless over time on teams where "number of tickets delivered per week" was remarkably stable. But people don't like using that for some reason.
I don't see how this can be the case. If each ticket is estimated to be about the same size, and it sounds as though they should be, then if you're doing say 5 tickets a week, 10 a sprint, and they're all about the same size then each ticket you could say is 5 points, and you're doing 50 points a sprint.
That's probably pointless (hah) if they are all the same size; ticket sizing is more for if you have tasks of different sizes and you're trying to roughly combine them into something you can predictably deliver.
But if you're at a stage when your delivery is already this predictable, you may not need to use story points particularly. If it's mandated for some silly reason then you could use the above method to bat it away quickly!
I don't see how this can be the case. If each ticket is estimated to be about the same size, and it sounds as though they should be, then if you're doing say 5 tickets a week, 10 a sprint, and they're all about the same size then each ticket you could say is 5 points, and you're doing 50 points a sprint.
That's probably pointless (hah) if they are all the same size; ticket sizing is more for if you have tasks of different sizes and you're trying to roughly combine them into something you can predictably deliver.
But if you're at a stage when your delivery is already this predictable, you may not need to use story points particularly. If it's mandated for some silly reason then you could use the above method to bat it away quickly!