To me story points, planning poker, scrum, and a bunch of other "agile" artifacts are funny concepts.
Making 4-5 highly paid professionals sit around in a circle with a bunch of cards trying to estimate how long/complex/??? the task is, writing it down, and doing that every two weeks, to dubious results, is exactly what one can expect out of today's businesses.
My guess is management doesn't trust that engineers aren't just fiddling around, so they hire a bunch of management-like people to watch over the drones, and show them who's in control. And how else you can show you are in control if you don't introduce magical rituals and tracking useless metrics, and make grown people participate? That way, all these meeting rooms can be occupied and the owners can feel like something important's happening and that they are getting their money's worth.
Making 4-5 highly paid professionals sit around in a circle with a bunch of cards trying to estimate how long/complex/??? the task is, writing it down, and doing that every two weeks, to dubious results, is exactly what one can expect out of today's businesses.
My guess is management doesn't trust that engineers aren't just fiddling around, so they hire a bunch of management-like people to watch over the drones, and show them who's in control. And how else you can show you are in control if you don't introduce magical rituals and tracking useless metrics, and make grown people participate? That way, all these meeting rooms can be occupied and the owners can feel like something important's happening and that they are getting their money's worth.