Comment by oytis
2 years ago
In orthodox agile environment planning, design and architecture might not result in any "story points".
Also these activities might not always result in a lot or any artifacts. E.g. being in a meeting, making sense of messy stream of requirements and using institutional knowledge to help set the right priorities on a project or prevent team from spending months on a dead end idea might not leave any paper trail at all.
Seniors are usually expected to do these things and also produce tangible artifacts. At the principle / architect level maybe you aren't producing code artifacts but you should easily be demonstrating 7+ figure impacts to the business from your efforts.