My last "team" was constantly paralyzed by this. The scrum master would go around and everyone had to vote on the number of points they thought a story was, wh

My last "team" was constantly paralyzed by this. The scrum master would go around and everyone had to vote on the number of points they thought a story was, which then led to extended debate. Of course, it can always be worse...near the end, they tried some idiotic thing called "planning poker".