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by davelnewton 3452 days ago
My $0.02USD:

Sprints are estimated in points, not time, based on relative story complexity.

Individual tasks are tracked for ideal engineering hours vs reality. It's an internal metric used to tune engineers' abilities to estimate actual time spent on various types of tasks. It's also used to identify bottlenecks in the entire development process.