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Engineers won't just naturally align with the organization if nobody rewards us for doing so. Hoes does Scrum reward the engineer for such alignment? edit: gr

• rossdavidh 9y ago
  Theoretically, Scrum is a way to say 'work on this, because it's what aligns with the organization'. But, of course, whether it really does or not depends on who is implementing it and how.
  • bassman9000 9y ago
    Scrum telling you how to align with the organization is not rewarding the engineer in any way. Orthogonal concerns. How does Scrum reward the engineer, in a way that it does it better, and more profoundly, than other methodologies?
    • amarkov 9y ago
      When you let engineers run around doing our own thing, we never have to show that the work we're doing is the most productive use of company time. We just have to show that it plausibly could be. Nobody will hesitate to reward the well-liked engineer with a cool sounding project, even if other things would really be more important. As the author noted, Scrum solves this problem by making number of story points completed the primary tool for a team to measure its productivity. If the cool-sounding project isn't important enough to take other items out of the sprint, there's no way to offer a post-hoc justification for doing it anyway. It has no story points, so work on it is considered non-productive.
• cbsmith 9y ago
  It makes it pretty easy for an engineer to understand what is needed to achieve success, communicate about obstacles in order to get assistance, and have transparency about how their work fits into the larger organization.