The Poker Standoff
Estimation facilitation
What started with the estimation fight just got more complicated. Now you need to facilitate estimation conversations that produce consensus, not conflict — and the situation is shifting faster than your first approach can handle.
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The Estimation Fight
→The sprint that's already overloaded, the tech debt nobody wants to address, the estimation that turns into an argument, and the sustainable pace everyone talks about but nobody practices. Navigate the estimation fight in this interactive journey.
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Sprint Planning Conflicts
→The sprint that's already overloaded, the tech debt nobody wants to address, the estimation that turns into an argument, and the sustainable pace everyone talks about but nobody practices. Navigate agile conflicts with real solutions.
What you'll learn from The Poker Standoff
This scenario focuses on Estimation facilitation — a critical skill inside the broader technology domain. You'll face a decision where the instinctive response is often the wrong one. After you make your choice, you'll see exactly what happened in the other person's head and why it mattered. The scenario is part of The Estimation Fight, a full interactive story inside the Sprint Planning Conflicts quest.
Skills you'll build in Sprint Planning Conflicts
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"That's a two." "That's an eight." The estimation poker turns into a standoff and the real argument isn't about story points — it's about who understands the work and who doesn't.
This is the moment you've been building toward. Advocating for sustainable pace when the culture glorifies overtime — except now the stakes are real and there's no rehearsal. What you do next matters.
You've faced the hardest part. Now turn what you've learned into something sustainable — a way to facilitate estimation conversations that produce consensus, not conflict not just today, but every time this situation returns.
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