Comment by nine_zeros
2 years ago
> Pretty clickbaity title. This isn't a story about a bad programmer, it's a story about a bad metric, and an even worse manager who followed it blindly
The clickbait is made so that this document can be shared with a future shitty manager. If you send them a link titled "The Worst Manager" - I assure you their first reaction will be to figure out how to get rid of you.
Managers are the bane of this industry and sadly, engineers have to spend an immense amount of time dancing around shit managers.
Bad managers who want to control instead of empower are the bane of this industry.
a manager that truly relies on story points as a direct metric of productivity wouldn't be reading blogs like this in the first place to make themselves better. the article is preaching to the choir of engineers and at a minimum half way decent managers nodding and upvoting. the ones that truly need to read this and embody it will never see it