I would agree with you generally, but I always have kind of wondered if there was a way to use some sort of internal pricing/phoney currency to schedule work.

I would agree with you generally, but I always have kind of wondered if there was a way to use some sort of internal pricing/phoney currency to schedule work. In many cases we are trying to balance how much "value" an item has with how long it will take to implement. I wonder if project managers could place a price on item and let developers pick from a list based on how much effort they think it will take them, if we could get a more efficient system.