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What are agile points? 

Agile points are a quick way to estimate the effort you will spend on a given task. Each company can come up with their own scale. For example you can use a 1 to 5 scale, with 1 being an easy task and 5 being the most difficult. When we make our tasks, we just need to make a quick estimate of where on the scale it lies. Agile points can be added from the task creation form or from the task detail panel. (If you do not see the agile points property, you can add it to your tasks from Admin >> Tasks). 

Project-level agile points

When we look at our project level, we can see there’s also an "agile points capacity". This is how many points we think we can accomplish in this project.

In many agile methodologies, you define the scope of the project at the beginning and then you add the tasks until your scope is full. For example, we set a 50 point capacity. We’ve only assigned eight so we can in fact add more tasks and we’ll see when we start reaching the 50 limit.

There’s nothing that prevents you from going over or under the amount of allocated agile points in a project. But you can always check and see if you are over- or under-budgeting for what your initial estimate was. If you’ve planned a project that’s 50 agile points in size, start adding tasks until you fill it up. Then you know you’ve estimated about the right size of the project.