Story points are fundamentally arbitrary to begin with. If you're doing development work that needs research and problem solving instead of just cranking out bo

Story points are fundamentally arbitrary to begin with. If you're doing development work that needs research and problem solving instead of just cranking out boilerplate for some standard type of application you've built 100 times before then often you can't even give a reasonable estimate for new work in terms of story points until you've already done most of it. That's the nature of creative and exploratory work. So yes the kind of process that plans everything in two week sprints and tracks tasks lasting maybe just a few hours each via daily meetings is micromanagement. That's what it's called when managers are so incapable of setting a clear direction and then trusting their people to get the job done that they have to check up on progress several times every day and constantly meddle with the real work.