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All of that is corruption of the idea. Probably common, but unnecessary and really needs to the fought against.

The primary point of Agile is to empower developers. If management is determined to micromanage them anyway, then Agile is pointless. If the term Agile is to have any business value at all, then let it be the stick with which developers beat some sense into stupid managers. Points are indeed rough estimates and can easily be off by a large factor, and they're definitely not meant to measure performance. Standups are about the team and about helping each other move forward. Demos are about getting feedback from stakeholders. It's fine if others see the Jira board, but it's not theirs. It's the developers'. And if a task isn't done, and it isn't done.

I fight for this if necessary, but fortunately I'm currently working in a team of very vocal and opinionated developers who take charge of their project and push back against managers if necessary. We do Scrum, but we're not dogmatic about it. We change the sprint scope if the situation calls for it. And we rebel when it's management that's calling for it.