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I recently took over a development team where the only two peopleones left are two fairly junior people.

Both are quite good for their age and I thought one was a senior as he knows his architecture but they are both assigned to use frameworks they have never worked with before and theretheir inexperience shows there as the code quality for many of the PRs is awful. They are the only two people writing an Angular app and neither of them has used it for more than three weeks.

They actually do know many of their mistakes but because the company is a "Scrum" company and this company tracks velocity twice daily (morning and afternoon standup reporting) they don't have time to check things and are just scrambling to get something done for the next reporting period.

It seems to be a stretch to think that I can get them to dump Scrum for another project management tool but this is my first Scrum company so I am not really sure what I can do within Scrum to get the developers more flexibility within the two week "sprint" period rather than the daily velocity tracking.

Any ideas?

I recently took over a development team where the only two people left are two fairly junior people.

Both are quite good for their age and I thought one was a senior as he knows his architecture but they are both assigned to use frameworks they have never worked with before and there inexperience shows there as the code quality for many of the PRs is awful. They are the only two people writing an Angular app and neither of them has used it for more than three weeks.

They actually do know many of their mistakes but because the company is a "Scrum" company and this company tracks velocity twice daily (morning and afternoon standup reporting) they don't have time to check things and are just scrambling to get something done for the next reporting period.

It seems to be a stretch to think that I can get them to dump Scrum for another project management tool but this is my first Scrum company so I am not really sure what I can do within Scrum to get the developers more flexibility within the two week "sprint" period rather than the daily velocity tracking.

Any ideas?

I recently took over a development team where the only ones left are two fairly junior people.

Both are quite good for their age and I thought one was a senior as he knows his architecture but they are both assigned to use frameworks they have never worked with before and their inexperience shows there as the code quality for many of the PRs is awful. They are the only two people writing an Angular app and neither of them has used it for more than three weeks.

They actually do know many of their mistakes but because the company is a "Scrum" company and this company tracks velocity twice daily (morning and afternoon standup reporting) they don't have time to check things and are just scrambling to get something done for the next reporting period.

It seems to be a stretch to think that I can get them to dump Scrum for another project management tool but this is my first Scrum company so I am not really sure what I can do within Scrum to get the developers more flexibility within the two week "sprint" period rather than the daily velocity tracking.

Any ideas?

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Dealing with extremely inexperienced developers who have daily deadlines?

I recently took over a development team where the only two people left are two fairly junior people.

Both are quite good for their age and I thought one was a senior as he knows his architecture but they are both assigned to use frameworks they have never worked with before and there inexperience shows there as the code quality for many of the PRs is awful. They are the only two people writing an Angular app and neither of them has used it for more than three weeks.

They actually do know many of their mistakes but because the company is a "Scrum" company and this company tracks velocity twice daily (morning and afternoon standup reporting) they don't have time to check things and are just scrambling to get something done for the next reporting period.

It seems to be a stretch to think that I can get them to dump Scrum for another project management tool but this is my first Scrum company so I am not really sure what I can do within Scrum to get the developers more flexibility within the two week "sprint" period rather than the daily velocity tracking.

Any ideas?