What are everyone's thoughts on moving away from the concept of Story Points?
Right. But... if someone is making delivery estimates, it's because they feel delivery estimates are needed. There's a good chance delivery timelines are important to the business.
It's great that we as devs can run on sprints that deliver abstract unitless points of complexity. But the rest of the company has to make actual deliveries on actual days.
Sales can't sell "75 abstract unitless complexity points" to customers. Marketing can't design and buy campaigns enticing you to buy "75 abstract unitless complexity points". God forbid you're working with a physical product, because manufacturing definitely can't build a widget that runs on 75 abstract unitless complexity points of firmware.
But experience also shows that companies are rarely willing or able to do what is needed to deliver software on time, on spec, and on budget.
So what do you do when others need to know delivery timelines for actual specific features for good reasons, but you don't want to give delivery timelines for good reasons?
What are everyone's thoughts on moving away from the concept of Story Points?
