Scrum has been twisted into a way to gaslight developers by shaming them for their estimating skills
when that was project management's job the entire fucking time. It's the biggest dodge going right now. A massive case of deflection and, dare I say, projection.
If the quality of your estimations has ever come up on your annual review, that's them bargaining you down by making you feel bad about yourself.
Someone in a video I watched recently pointed out that story points per week is a graph plotting time on both axes.
One of the earlier agile methodologies (FDD) had one thing figured out: the law of large numbers works just fine for long-term estimation, as long as you can identify the stories, and the range of story 'sizes' is within an order of magnitude (eg, a day vs 2 weeks). You don't have to give a shit if a story is 4 points or 7. That's a waste of everyone's time and especially energy. It's horizontal aggression condensed into a management model. We need to start refusing, as a collective, to engage. The only discussion you need to have is whether this story is less than two weeks, more than two weeks, or way more than two weeks. Those happen at a much lower frequency.
If the quality of your estimations has ever come up on your annual review, that's them bargaining you down by making you feel bad about yourself.
Someone in a video I watched recently pointed out that story points per week is a graph plotting time on both axes.
One of the earlier agile methodologies (FDD) had one thing figured out: the law of large numbers works just fine for long-term estimation, as long as you can identify the stories, and the range of story 'sizes' is within an order of magnitude (eg, a day vs 2 weeks). You don't have to give a shit if a story is 4 points or 7. That's a waste of everyone's time and especially energy. It's horizontal aggression condensed into a management model. We need to start refusing, as a collective, to engage. The only discussion you need to have is whether this story is less than two weeks, more than two weeks, or way more than two weeks. Those happen at a much lower frequency.