AI Can Write Your Code but It Cannot Sit in Your Sprint Grooming Session

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That is what story point estimation is if you strip away the Agile terminology and the process diagrams and the certification courses that charge thousands of dollars to teach you something you could learn in your first three sprints.

You sit in a room. Your project manager pulls up a backlog. The client has filled it with things they need built. And your job as a developer is to look at each one and say a number that represents how much effort it will take.

Not hours. Not days. A number. One, two, three, five, eight.

That is the system. And after doing this every fortnight for years, I have opinions about it that no Agile textbook will give you.

How the Process Actually Works

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We call this meeting the sprint grooming session.

Every two weeks the cycle resets. The whole dev team joins the call. Frontend engineers. Backend engineers. The project manager running the board. Everyone who will touch the code in the next sprint sits in the same room or the same video call and goes through the backlog together.