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Abstract effort units for sizing work, deliberately not hours — to prevent exactly the hours-conversion your PM does in their head anyway.

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“The migration is an eight, which means split it.”

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Useful for relative sizing. The eternal 'points to hours' conversion war has no winners, only casualties.

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