Per scrum, only the product owners get to prioritize the backlog, and only dev team should selecting tasks. No manager or team buy in. And if it's an internal

Per scrum, only the product owners get to prioritize the backlog, and only dev team should selecting tasks. No manager or team buy in. And if it's an internal tool, then those devs are your product owners. The first principle of agile is people over process. A lot of people like to blame agile for processes that their own teams just made up instead of taking accountability. My teams have quarterly "do whatever you want" sprints where bugs like this are targeted.