• TehPers@beehaw.org
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    I guess the flaw is that it’s (almost) never used only for planning and is often used as a metric of productivity, from my experience. It becomes a competition to see who can check off the most story points, and velocity is often used to compare developers against each other.

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      […] and velocity is often used to compare developers against each other.

      Wow, that’s messed up. Luckily I’ve never had such a team/such leadership.

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        Yeah I’ve seen it, it about burned the company to the ground too over exodus of talented personnel… so… managers beware