Sometimes I think the problem is really that two things are being tied together: metrics and a todo list. Almost every sprint planning it ends up feeling like t

Sometimes I think the problem is really that two things are being tied together: metrics and a todo list. Almost every sprint planning it ends up feeling like tasks are subdivided in ways that make burn down charts look better. I don't want to say developers are all special snowflakes, but the problems with time estimates on creative work is well known, and I tend to wonder if trying to track metrics on these things is fundamentally misguided.