70 Story Points
SOW states 70 story points for each sprint. What does it mean?
It means the author of the SOW has lost the plot about product value, and how to optimize and account for it.
I guess it means no value needs to be produced each Sprint, only story points :) I wonder how they want those story points delivered. Slip of paper with 70 written on it?
Joking aside, story points have no relation to value or our outcomes. 70 points doesn't mean anything. Does the SOW include more details beyond that?
Since points are relative sizes to a Scrum Team and don't equate to absolute estimates (in units of time such as person-hours or days), 70 points are absolutely meaningless as others have mentioned.
Ask the SOW author this: "If we delivered 70 points of work asked for every Sprint, yet no end user cared about or used what was delivered, would you consider the investment worth it?". As mentioned, does the SOW focus on outcomes and goals?
Google Agile contracting, such as patterns like "Money for nothing and change for free". Fixed Scope, Fixed timelines, and fixed budget don't work in waterfall or with Scrum.
All the best.
Basically it means that Scrum team should assign 70 or more story points to PBI they select for Sprint Backlog and deliver them by the end of the sprint. Best to assign 70 story points to the user story(PBI items selected for a Sprint backlog) which they know they will deliver.
Why would the organization behind SOW need those story points(who have zero value outside the Scrum team) its their business. May be its their hobby to collect story points from scrum teams.
For me it would mean that I would question every line of the statement of work for validity because that one line is total nonsense. As everyone else has said, the person that wrote that has no idea what story points are or why they are used. You may want to point them to this article and then ask them what they mean by that statement.
Ever see the comedy show "Who's Line Is It Anyway?". That show and Scrum teams that use Story Pointing have one thing in common. The points don't matter...