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So much of agile "process" gets so close to the point while still missing it, it's infuriating. Absolutely 100% agree that story points are mostly meaningless, but story pointing shouldn't be the point of backlog refinement. The point should be to discuss upcoming work, clarify things, ask questions, make sure everyone's on the same page, moving in the same direction, and making sure all the work is accounted for. Story points can be a nice punctuation to all that discussion and planning effort, but for the most part it's nothing more than a contrivance to satisfy management's boner for tracking useless metrics.