Why I don't use story points

I haven't thrown points since I left Pivotal. I'm not philosophically opposed to them, I just haven't actually been in a situation where I thought they were worth the cost of getting a team to use them, and to use them correctly. A lot of people have really strong negative reactions to points and pointing, and they usually don't feel like the highest leverage change I can make on a team.Some Pivotal-specific BackgroundYou can skip this if you worked at Pivotal, but Pivotal is the only place I've worked that did it this exact way, so I want to give folks who weren't there some extra context.When I say "throw points" I'm talking about the specific way that Pivotal did pointing, and in particular the way Cloud Foundry teams in San Francisco did pointing, which of course I think is the Right Way to Do It.You're in IPM, you have the whole team gathered around a Tracker story up on a big screen, and then everyone holds up their hands in a fist and someone (usually the anchor) counts off…