I don't understand how to handle this. In my experience this is what happens: - You start with a PM/PO/Someone handing out tasks - You learn the system -

I don't understand how to handle this. In my experience this is what happens: - You start with a PM/PO/Someone handing out tasks - You learn the system - You start doing more work - They start giving you harder work - They start asking you to manage the tasks/trace down AC for new tasks - They start asking you to fix bugs or change AC mid-sprint - No amount of logic gets through We can have discussions all day about the three variables, or agile, or maintenance, but at the end of the day if it's just a free for all it's up to how much they like you/how much you can delegate/how much you can say no effectively (and on an ongoing basis) to. We have agile/jira/all these systems. Why not use them? Why not plan 2 weeks of work... and do 2 weeks of work? Why do they always need to try to squeeze more? It's exhausting and unnecessary and annoying. Edit: I've worked extremely hard to do everything management asks, and I think this is the problem. I always do. How do you say no? Is it in private? Does the "scope talk" work? Do you do it for every story? Do you end up doing a lot of the planning work and always know what's on your plate as things are added so you aren't overloaded? I really don't want to be the "make a ticket" guy, but it seems management can handle little less.