How can story points be used for that? To me that's only relevant in the short term. Can management be made to understand that velocity can be too high? Edit:

How can story points be used for that? To me that's only relevant in the short term. Can management be made to understand that velocity can be too high? Edit: Expanding with my previous thoughts on this - as a software architect I've explained my role to management by saying it's like I work in an agile team, but the waterfall is in my head - someone needs to keep the architecture together and drive it towards green pastures where it keeps great flexibility for developing future anticipated features without giving up stability.