How about getting rid of the "stories", "points" and "sprints" altogether? Not only is the nomenclature abhorrent, the best software projects don't use enterprise agile methodology.
In my view, it's fine if it's not treated a performance metric, for the individual devs.
I saw a lot of questionable tactics stem from this. It's like when you play capture the flag, and focus on the "KDR" metric, as is often done.
Critical people who were saving the teams life and working their fucking asses off would get grilled and questioned; not intentionally, but as a natural extension of these processes. Meanwhile, people that scored easy points would get a pat on the head, then sit silently during the sprint review; thankful that they got the easy path this sprint.
It got to the point of absurdity. I think it could make sense to look at sprint points during planning, but then the total bank of points goes to the team; who scored what should be anonymous... this was one of those ideas you have that you know you can never share, lol.
I agree, but a lot of big companies are all in on Agile and you (as a developer) don't really get a lot of say on the matter.
Some high-paid consultants got paid a lot of money to sell it to the CEO, who then mandates it....so we are stuck with it ...until those same consultants have some other methodology-du-jour to sell.
Forcing every team in the company to use the same project management framework because consultants who never created great software claimed it's a panacea. Interesting decision.
I saw a lot of questionable tactics stem from this. It's like when you play capture the flag, and focus on the "KDR" metric, as is often done.
Critical people who were saving the teams life and working their fucking asses off would get grilled and questioned; not intentionally, but as a natural extension of these processes. Meanwhile, people that scored easy points would get a pat on the head, then sit silently during the sprint review; thankful that they got the easy path this sprint.
It got to the point of absurdity. I think it could make sense to look at sprint points during planning, but then the total bank of points goes to the team; who scored what should be anonymous... this was one of those ideas you have that you know you can never share, lol.