Exactly. Managers look for metrics and point and velocity are what they use.
Well anyway, managers in my current company are dumber than second coat of paint and I inflate points.
Well anyway, managers in my current company are dumber than second coat of paint and I inflate points.
It's not a coincidence the consultancy sector uses scrum. They get paid for their output, usually by the hour, and scrum measures output.
If a consultant implements a load of useless features that make a product worse, but do so very quickly, then that's a great success for them. It's not fundamentally different from rewarding developers for the number of lines of code they write.