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Ahh, I see. I had no idea. I'm not from a programming background originally but fought hard to get into a programming job from a closely-related field. The way our team uses them is to justify our contracting support, "Look at our developers, they did X points! You should contract more work to our company!"
So if point estimation is that poor, maybe I should stop agonizing over adding points to a task.. it always feels like I'm broadcasting that I can't solve a task when the points go.. 5.. 10.. 15.. 20.. 25.. etc.
Who creates these tasks? Anyone can, most of the existing tasks were created by people I've never met, sometimes people no longer with the company, sometimes people on a different development team, the tasks get assigned to the team working on "the product" that we support and then are handed out.