I like the idea of story points as a tool for communicating with each other about rough estimates. I don't like story points as a source of data for management to put into spreadsheets and use in dubious "velocity calculations". I especially don't like the results of those calculations being used to measure my individual productivity and set expectations about my future work rate.
The language of agile has been co-opted to suit the needs of mediocre managers.
Exactly this. Agile was converted from an adjective to a noun, and then people started selling the noun.
There's only so much you can charge someone to tell them, "The skills your developers possess for creating and modifying computerized systems can also be applied to organizing software development teams. Just make it part of their jobs to improve their own process, and give them frequent, objective feedback on how they are doing."
