I would love it if we were all "cross function" but that comes at a cost of reduced velocity. First of all, a manager shouldn't be side channel dm his reports q

I would love it if we were all "cross function" but that comes at a cost of reduced velocity. First of all, a manager shouldn't be side channel dm his reports questioning the estimates/story points the team collectively decided at all but in this situation you have to live with reduced capacity forever if you want everyone to be a jack of all trades. Management wants to have its cake and eat it too. I feel like if you object to an estimate, you must have to do the task yourself with the reduced estimate. This falls flat because I suspect my manager has ZERO programming/qa/development or even business analyst experience. Just my personal opinion that if you think the estimate is wrong, you should take the task yourself and do it in less time or shut up. You know how we talk about developers not able to do fizzbuzz with ten years' experience? I suspect he is whatever the equivalent of that is for managers.