Comment by michaelochurch

"Scrum" is often an attempt to take micromanagement, or the low-status programmer culture, and institutionalize it in a way that seems impersonal and policy-based. Hence, the haggling over story points (a low-status behavior, because it refuses to recognize the meaninglessness of the involved currency and the way the team has been pitted against itself). But high-status programmers just ignore that sort of process and work the way they want to.