Agility is implemented as a way to increase productivity. It does it with more detailed scrutiny of what workers do.
Management understood very well that it's taylorism applied to our profession. Taylorism started with measuring every movement of the workers and have their expertise removed from themselves. Daily stand-ups and points kind-of do that, even if there is no magical 4x productivity gain to ever be found, unlike was what won in manufacturing (cf. Braverman). It's a game played against workers, if they self-organized there would be no Agile.
Management understood very well that it's taylorism applied to our profession. Taylorism started with measuring every movement of the workers and have their expertise removed from themselves. Daily stand-ups and points kind-of do that, even if there is no magical 4x productivity gain to ever be found, unlike was what won in manufacturing (cf. Braverman). It's a game played against workers, if they self-organized there would be no Agile.