Agile teams on the public works work-order ART expect the RTE to estimate their stories during PI Planning. How should the RTE respond?
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Short Explanation
The people who do the work-order work own the numbers. The RTE sets the room up and keeps the clock; the RTE does not guess story points for the teams. Honest plans come from the teams who will do the work.
Full Explanation
Agile teams own their estimates and team plans; the RTE facilitates rather than estimates for them. When public works work-order ART teams expect the RTE to estimate stories during PI Planning, the RTE should decline and keep facilitation separate from false precision imposed from outside the team. Estimating so teams can skip breakout planning destroys ownership and plan quality for citizen work-orders. Asking Business Owners to supply story points from the dais confuses economic value with effort estimates. Converting every story to a feature so only Product Management estimates misuses backlog hierarchy to avoid team estimating. Exam caveat: The RTE can coach estimating technique and challenge outliers, but must not become the estimator of record. Operational check: In work-order breakouts, ensure teams produce estimates and plans while the RTE monitors timeboxes, dependencies, and risks—not point values. In municipal settings, pressure to look busy, compliant, or politically safe is constant; the RTE earns trust by holding the principle through that pressure and verifying the next cadence event shows improved civic delivery, not just a quieter meeting. Capture the before/after signal so sponsors see the operational evidence.