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by mangodrunk 3075 days ago
In my experience, using story points to judge performance is typically not useful. It is a very simplistic view. It doesn't include the quality of the code. And who knows if the estimation was accurate. And then you can have story point inflation. Also, someone may figure out an easier less complicated solution for a problem, and so that would have a smaller story point, which is better.

I would be curious in hearing how people judge dev productivity as well, it's something that I don't like to just use a number, though there may be some benefit in having that being a small part of the judgement.