Example estimations

Worked examples of the conversations that surface real scope. Not 'login is an 8' — the questions that need to land before anyone votes.

Each page below walks one kind of story through the conversation it actually needs — the questions that get asked, the assumptions that get caught, the failure mode the team should be watching for. None of them give you a number. The point is the prep, not the prediction.

Feature work

Bugs and unknowns

Infrastructure and migrations

Cross-cutting

Research and prototypes

These are companions to the four-phase loop — read one before refinement on a story that matches. The common mistakes page covers what goes wrong inside the session itself; these cover what you should already know before you walk in.