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Re:Ask HN: What's the most overengineered tool everyone uses... by fazlerocks on Wednesday June 04, 2025 @10:13PM (#44187706)
Right. We're optimizing for the wrong metrics. Hours spent arguing if something is a 3 or 5 story points could've been spent just building it.

The obsession with predictability in an unpredictable process is the real problem, especially in copilot and cursor era. :D

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Re:Ask HN: What's the most overengineered tool everyone uses... by duttish on Wednesday June 04, 2025 @11:15PM (#44188025)
If people are arguing between 3 and 5 points just pick one and move on.

If people are arguing between 3 and 21 points there's a mismatch in understanding what the work entails.

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Re:Ask HN: What's the most overengineered tool everyone uses... by muzani on Friday June 06, 2025 @09:26AM (#44200664)
Often the highest is the correct answer. If it's 21, then break it down until nobody thinks it's 21.
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Re:Ask HN: What's the most overengineered tool everyone uses... by ivape on Thursday June 05, 2025 @12:48AM (#44188388)
It's used to justify jobs of scrum/pm people and I'm tired of being polite about it. Imagine we enter a tech company, decide it's LARPing time, and create DnD rules for a completely made up role and then pay someone to do it. That is literally what has been happening in the tech industry.
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