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CAPM Practice: Explain when it is appropriate to use an adaptive approach

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An adaptive team uses relative estimation with story points. What is the PRIMARY advantage of story points over hour-based estimates?
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Correct answer: Story points capture complexity, uncertainty, and effort relative to other stories, avoiding false precision and allowing team-specific calibration

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Story points estimate relative size (complexity, effort, uncertainty) by comparison to other stories — not by converting to hours. This avoids false precision (claiming you know exactly how many hours an uncertain task will take), allows the team to calibrate to their own capacity and skills, and naturally accounts for complexity that pure hour estimates miss. Teams determine their own story-point-to-hours ratio through velocity measurement.

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This question covers Explain when it is appropriate to use an adaptive approach under Explain when it is appropriate to use an adaptive approach (Agile Frameworks/Methodologies).

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