And also, do people actually plan it out or do they just approve every idea that doesn’t sound terrible?
Software is complicated. Half the time I don’t know what the hell anyone is talking about due to labyrinthine requirements, but I’m not going to stop the meetings to ask questions unless I’m the main guy working on it.
But nobody knows who will work on it and you'll stop the meeting during the blind estimation process because you have to estimate points and you don't know what anybody else is estimating.
All of the points you're raising are solved inherently by the way points estimation works with the points playing cards.
You're not stopping the meeting. But it will be your turn to explain why you think it's the number of points you chose, so you'll do that.
Software is complicated. Half the time I don’t know what the hell anyone is talking about due to labyrinthine requirements, but I’m not going to stop the meetings to ask questions unless I’m the main guy working on it.