> 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 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.