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> Story points being used for the team and to tell management how much work is being done are not mutually exclusive. That's the thing though, in reality they
by kyllo 7y ago
> Story points being used for the team and to tell management how much work is being done are not mutually exclusive.
That's the thing though, in reality they really are mutually exclusive. As soon as management starts using a metric to measure the team's performance, that metric stops being useful for the team to improve itself, because now there is a perverse incentive to inflate the metric to get performance rewards.
- cwyers 7y agoYes. Goodhart's Law: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure." As soon as management starts looking at story points, it's a scramble to get the most points possible in a sprint (or at least, to not let velocity go down).
- jboy55 7y agoI had a VP, new to my company, come to me and say, 'Your velocity is pathetic, at my last company my engineers were doing 14-16 points a sprint, yours are only doing 8-10'. I tried to explain how that wasn't a thing and we could just start doubling our points. He seemed to indicate that's what I should do ... I started looking.
- hinkley 7y agoMetric inflation. It’s a thing. Don’t let anyone show you a two year graph of story points.