[JohnFen]

> Is someone using story points as a metric of anything other than forecasting?

Very nearly every company I've worked at that uses Scrum uses story points, velocity, etc., as a means of measuring how good you or your team are. Forecasting is a secondary purpose.

[mb7733]

Don't teams assign points to their own tickets? So how could one compare the points between teams?

[jSully24]

Yes. But many Sr. Leaders just see a number so it must also be a metric you can use for measurement. They do not understand it’s real use.

I picture a construction company counting the total inches / centimeters each employee measured every day. Then at the end of the year firing the bottom 20% of employees measured in total units measured in the last 12 months.

[zaphirplane]

Sounds easy to game. Click a button to foo the bar is <pinky> one million points

[bolobo]

Ahh the good old "Waterfall Scrum"