I think of PM tools like I think of guns. Guns aren't bad things, innately. Police need them, in many places, for self-defense. Thousands of lives are saved ann

I think of PM tools like I think of guns. Guns aren't bad things, innately. Police need them, in many places, for self-defense. Thousands of lives are saved annually by avalanche shootdowns using very large guns. On the other hand, I wouldn't want a gun to be in my place of work... especially not if it's pointed at me by someone just waiting for my "velocity" to drop so he can shoot me in the head. I don't know that PM tools are inherently bad or even useless. I do know, from observation, that most uses of them are negative. You don't hear talented programmers jumping for joy when they hear that their jobs will depend on their ability to haggle for story points. This stuff might turn 0.5x developers into marginally employable 1.0x, but it brings the 10x way down. Finally, this Tweet from @SwearengenCD: https://twitter.com/SwearengenCD/status/56070701622374400 https://twitter.com/SwearengenCD/status/56070701622374400 "If God made the earth with a PM, we'd have 100 small piles of dirt, each completed in a 4-hour coding increment, but no fucking planet."