> Appealing to management does not work. After all, the management in business environments is usually non-technical, and the worst kind are the best performers

> Appealing to management does not work. After all, the management in business environments is usually non-technical, and the worst kind are the best performers. Who should the management listen to if not to the best performers? > One largely unappreciated aspect of Scrum is the interchangeable nature of team members. I'm not trying to argue that encouraging this kind of programmer will result in better software, but if a programmer goes from "difficult to replace" to "easy to replace" by following these best practices, then maybe the problem runs much deeper than these kinds of individual programmers. Apparently following best practices is bad for job security.