At the company I work for, our yearly performance reviews are based partially on the metric "Complete 90% of uninterrupted development sprints with no carry over." What I see most of the time, is developers hurrying towards the end of the sprint to meet this arbitrary deadline, choosing the easiest path A instead of the correct path B. Now the project has been run like this for years, you can imagine how much tech debt has accumulated.
Sounds like a great way for the company to make people work hard (not smart), product mediocre results and not have to pay out bonuses. Have you considered either improving the process or finding a new job?
Right, "agile" has become a developer metric system.
I've seen many management fads. They come and go. They go because everyone tires of them and they get gamified anyways. At Sun I heard many people say things like "I'm going to code myself an SUV" whenever we got a new gamifiable management technique.
