The big problem with "glue work" is it's often as important as the "real work" but it doesn't fit neatly on the Jira board. The other problem with "glue work"

The big problem with "glue work" is it's often as important as the "real work" but it doesn't fit neatly on the Jira board. The other problem with "glue work" is it's often viewed as, well, glue work when in reality it's necessary work every bit as important as the "real work". IMO the distinction has been amplified by the agile/scrum/devops train wreck where engineering no longer exists and it's the next person up to pull that next story to the "In Dev" column. And then the real tragedy comes at review time... I see you didn't complete as many stories as your peers on the team this past year. Yeah that's true, I was busy doing glue work that made the app build easily, integrate with all the external systems, deploy from dev to stage to prod seemlessly and trigger a quarter the pager duty alerts than other apps in the org.