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- Singleton Epic - an epic with only a single Story is either too small to be an epic or too large to be a story
- Not enough details - very short ticket text with a very high estimate makes us wonder where those extra points are coming from
- Commas / Conjunctions (e.g. and / or / but) - can indicate a pause or change in focus
- "also" / "as well" / "includes" / "including" - extraneous things that can usually be split into separate tickets sometimes use these types of modifiers
- a single Story requires changes to multiple repositories - typically Stories can be broken down such that they only need to change 1 repo at a time (if they can't, this may indicate coupling or issues maintaining the "separation of concerns")
- A clear disconnect or confusion between what was asked for in the ticket vs what was suggested by leadership - this indicates that one or more people did not understand the full scope of the work requested
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