In tech. Recently there has increased visibility from leadership into our metrics/projects/etc. Our Jira boards and backlogs are regularly monitored and critiqued, and we've been told they are going to be averaging story point completion per person. Now they're asking us to track the specific skills we are using when completing each task. Is this happening anywhere else? Feels like a bad sign
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@cp They are already doing this.
We in tech are fu---d by Charlie. AI will soon make us obsolete
Agile tickets were being used to track time and level of activity as well. Time Tracker (for CTO) was discontinued and somehow they were generating hours of work/activity from the tickets.
I never figured out how they were going to do that, since we didn't use story points. Our scrum master told us specifically not to bother.
I have reports that I have built to specifically find people that use the same exact cookie cutter comments all the time on tickets so we can target them for lower ratings. About time someone has decided to look into these people doing nothing and getting paid for it!
You've framed the debate perfectly: the machine versus the bully manager.
In theory, I'd rather have my performance review be objective—based on my actual contributions and check-ins in Jira—than be subject to the whims of a biased manager. An objective system should, in principle, protect you from favoritism and unfair criticism.
But this is where theory collides with the reality of a psychologically unsafe culture. A tool is only as good as the person using it. Jira was meant for team collaboration, not as a surveillance system to track "story points per person." That metric is a classic ba----dization of agile principles; it punishes collaboration and completely ignores context.
A bully manager won't be replaced by the machine; they'll just we-ponize its data. They will use these new "objective" metrics to justify the same biased decisions they were already making, giving them a layer of manufactured evidence to hide behind.
So, it will be interesting to see how the managers sc--w this up—just like they sc--wed up the agile transformation, the cloud migration, and everything else they've touched. They always find a way to turn a tool for progress into a we-pon for control.
Fu-k Wells Fargo and their ba----dization of what agile is supposed to be. I hope Trump sh--s all over CS and the greedy fu--s abusing H1B and offshoring. Scrum Master / Product Owner at Wells Fargo = worst fu--ing job ever.
I am in CTO. Maybe my group is trying to rapidly catch up with what everyone else is doing then. They have also told us leadership reads the comments on stories but I never really believed it. Good to know
If you’re not in CTO you’re not “in tech”. You may be in a tech role sure, I’m not discounting that. But if you are in CTO then you’ve already been tracking your time via time tracker and the artifacts. If you function mostly out of Jira you’re now getting a taste of what everyone else has already been doing.
The same push is being made across many different companies. There is emphasis on delivering and documenting everything you do as you go in Jira. At some companies directors and executive directors even read the comments on individual user stories