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If you're an engineer doing scrum, and the product owners are "telling you what to do", imo you're doing scrum wrong. Engineers should be involved in turning u
by cpressey 14y ago
If you're an engineer doing scrum, and the product owners are "telling you what to do", imo you're doing scrum wrong. Engineers should be involved in turning user stories into tasks.
Even outside scrum, even in a traditional workplace, good managers don't "tell you what to do", because they know it's demotivational. Good managers explain to you why something needs to be done, that is, how it will benefit the enterprise, and let you do it.
- sherm8n 14y agoThere's already a barrier if a manager has to tell you why something needs to be done. Usually that means you disagree. Naturally you don't want to do it anymore.
- gruseom 14y agoI was once in the room when one of the guys who wrote the book on Scrum described how many companies implement it. For those who don't know, Scrum says that team members should answer three questions each working day: 1. What have you done in the last day? 2. What are you doing today? 3. Are you experiencing any impediments to your work? Here is how he said these questions get implemented: 1. Did you do what I told you to yesterday? 2. Here's what I want you to do today. 3. Fuck the third question.
- sherm8n 14y agoHaha, so true. Especially when engineering managers are the scrum masters. They repurpose scrum to get status updates.