It happens all the time. And then that encourages the weasels on the dev team (every team has some!) to game the system that way, overpointing the tasks they kn

It happens all the time. And then that encourages the weasels on the dev team (every team has some!) to game the system that way, overpointing the tasks they know they can take and kick out quickly to look like rockstars. IMHO with Scrum it takes very few bad apples for the whole thing to fall down.