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There's nothing about the scrum process that helps me, as an engineer, to work more efficiently. I work at the same pace regardless of what fictional story points are assigned to a task. The entire charade is only for middle managers to communicate up the chain what is happening. Velocity can be massaged so easily that it is a useless metric.

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so this means you have implemented scrum not efficiently.

if you work in an inverted pyramid where the team has autonomy (within boundaries) - scrum doesn't become a reporting tool it is for the team. since there is nothing else "above" the team.

The story points are a measure. That help your team to plan a sprint nothing else.

No true scotsman. If everyone is working efficiently, why would the team need another layer of overhead to do the job they are already doing?

If story points are fictional then that's not the fault of the process, it's the fault of the person who made the estimation.

If you've been working as a developer for any length of time, you should know roughly how long a particular task is going to take you.

I know how long it takes me to accomplish a task given spherical cows. Since nothing is stable (test environment, content, other fires), the story points are irrelevant.

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