This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams.

In this episode you will learn:

- Story points are a relative measure of effort, complexity, and risk, not a measure of time.

- Planning Poker is a consensus-based technique used by agile teams to estimate story points for backlog items.

- Velocity is the historical average of completed story points per iteration and is used to forecast future capacity.

- Release planning provides a long-term forecast for multiple iterations, while iteration planning details the work for the very next sprint.

- Product backlog refinement is an ongoing activity to ensure the backlog is prioritized, detailed, and ready for future sprints.

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