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at least one item of the simplest effort. If you have that item to
serve as a baseline of an easy story that can be completed with minimal
effort, then you now have a starting point to compare all other tasks to.
+Within LCPD we currently say that a story that can be completed in a day
+or less has a value of 1 story point. This does not imply that story points
+map to days. Rather think of a story point as something between 4-8 hours of
+work. So 3 story points is about 3 times more difficult that a single story
+point item.
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Another reason to use story points instead of other metrics such as