I'm not sure I get it. If you're doing story points, you are doing big-A Agile yes? In that case, you absolutely always have an impossibly long queue. The thin

I'm not sure I get it. If you're doing story points, you are doing big-A Agile yes? In that case, you absolutely always have an impossibly long queue. The things that don't get done keep going into technical debt, which as a rule doesn't decrease. Until at some point you declare technical bankruptcy. If you reduce this to just the queue for the current sprint, that is generally a smaller size, the queue length is determined by ... the story points. So to manage the queue without story points, your job is to break the stories into equal-sized tasks, so that the queue size has a meaning. However, you cannot break a story up that way (this requires estimation of task complexity -- the premise of the article and our own battle tested experience is we don't know how to do that) and even if you could you run into the infinite queue as I mentioned. > I am certified to teach it as a SAFe Practice Consultant (SPC) :sus: