Story points to hours calculator

Derive what a point is actually worth in hours from your own team data, rather than borrowing a number from another team.

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Hours per point, for your team7.4 hrs
Sprint capacity250 hrsPeople x days x focused hours
8 points is about58.8 hrs
Which is roughly11.8 focused days
How this is calculated

Sprint capacity = people x days x focused hours a day. Hours per point = capacity / average velocity. This derives the conversion from what your team actually did, which is the only version that means anything: there is no universal hours-per-point.

Frequently asked
Is it not the whole point that story points are not hours?

Yes, and that tension is real. Points measure relative size and absorb uncertainty; hours do not. This conversion is for planning conversations with people outside the team who think in dates, not for estimating the work itself.

Why focused hours rather than an eight-hour day?

Because nobody delivers eight focused hours. Meetings, support, review and context switching are real, and five is a common honest figure. Using eight inflates capacity by sixty percent and makes every forecast optimistic.

My hours per point looks wrong. What now?

It is telling you something. A very high number usually means capacity is being spent on unplanned work; a very low one usually means point inflation. Either way the fix is upstream of the arithmetic.

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