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by AnimalMuppet 3325 days ago
Not scrum-specific, and I don't recall whether it was backed by academic research, but one of the rules in XP is that estimates longer than 3 weeks were (more) unreliable. So if the estimate was longer than 3 weeks, you had to break it up into chunks, each of which was 3 weeks or smaller.