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tweetle_beetleyesterday at 9:40 PM0 repliesview on HN

I once met someone who refused to engage with leadership using his team's story points as a direct measure of productivity. To make it harder to extract the data and compare against other teams, they moved to using names of animals to represent types of task associated with differing amounts of uncertainty.

I've also seen a supplier who was asked to provide some kind of tracking, where literally nothing existed. Their delivery team produced reports with story points per person, per task, per sprint. Every sprint, every person hit their target month after month after month. They were asked to stop.