If you're working in a team using the Scrum framework, you use story points to estimate effort on your stories, tasks, etc. Some management also takes this into account and does planning, measures your productivity, and even keeps you accountable when something is done. Yet, they need to learn that software estimations are always wrong. The main reason is that estimations are forecasts, which are predictions of an unknown future. Yet we all know it is impossible to see the end, but people tend t...