Comment by hansmayer

I think a lot of this idiotic thinking about measuring productivity through "stories" is to pin on the "Agile" industry overselling their low value "methodologies" to the MBA-type managers, which are now unfortunately just about everywhere. Hence you have some clueless person deciding who has to go, based on how many tickets get moved on the board. As Joel Spolsky once said, no software company can succeed unless a programmer is at the helm.