I am just baffled by the assumption that such practices only exist to piss off engineers. I do a bit of planning poker with my team every couple of weeks, desp

I am just baffled by the assumption that such practices only exist to piss off engineers. I do a bit of planning poker with my team every couple of weeks, despite being a pretty experienced engineer, and it's great. It's been good at exposing assumptions or concerns that members of the team have, or about confirming that everybody is on the same page wrt. what the complexity of a particular task is likely to be. I reckon that more groups should be doing this, and not fewer.