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Jamie Taylor
@gaprogman.com

I once worked with a five-person team whose lead ran planning poker against two hard caps. No more than twenty-one story points in a sprint, across the whole team. No single task bigger than eight. If the tally crept past either, the team re-estimated until the numbers fit.

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Jamie Taylor
@gaprogman.com

So a piece of work that plainly felt like a thirteen was never sent back to be specified more tightly. It was re-estimated downward until it read as a seven. The cap was the rule, and the estimate was the thing that had to give.

Jamie Taylor
@gaprogman.com

The points had stopped measuring the work and started measuring compliance with a ceiling. That team has not adopted agentic development yet. The currency was already hollow. New post on Friday about what agents do to it.