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> The corresponding abuse of process to combat that metric would be to hyper-decompose stories.

You're right about that, but that's also one of the benefits to the approach. Inflating a point estimate is easy and there's no real audit trail for why the value is what it is.

On the other hand, if a team creates tasks like "Commit the code" or "save the file" it's pretty easy to identify as fluff.



'save the file' is not fluff.




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