That’s fair. Honestly I haven’t gone too deep into the source material. Most of my knowledge comes from two former coworkers and current friends who were well

That’s fair. Honestly I haven’t gone too deep into the source material. Most of my knowledge comes from two former coworkers and current friends who were well versed and experienced in XP and agile and had a huge impact on the engineering culture at the company I was talking about. I actually don’t disagree that story-pointing feels like a waste of time, but I do find it useful to talk about what’s involved in a task and figure out how long is might take. I don’t think it’s unreasonable for management to want a rough idea of when something will be delivered, mostly so that they are able to plan themselves. Of course, it all depends on endless variables as to how much process a company needs. In larger companies with multiple teams, I strongly believe in self-organizing teams with a well-defined point of contact and freedom to implement as much or as little process as they want. Edited to fix horrendous typo as a result of typing on my phone. I likely didn’t catch them all.