Timeline for How to deal with a colleague who is picking tasks based on what will get them more attention and visibility as opposed to picking up tasks of priority
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| May 9, 2016 at 15:09 | comment | added | lambdapool | Scrum is a thing it works exactly like that. | |
| Aug 26, 2014 at 13:12 | comment | added | HLGEM | This is why self_assigning work is a poor uidea even if it is a SCRUM thing. Ther are always people who don't do their share or who pick up work that they should not be doing. Under the self-assigned scheme therte is no way to mitigate this effectively. | |
| Aug 26, 2014 at 12:45 | comment | added | Fiona - myaccessible.website | Are your sprints too long? It sounds to me like your sprints contain some high priority work and a lot of nice to have stuff that is less important. If you suggest having shorter sprints, they should contain more of the hight priority work and reduce the problem. | |
| Aug 26, 2014 at 7:02 | comment | added | Stephan Kolassa | If you work in Scrum, this is exactly what the Scrum Master is there for. Have you talked to him? | |
| Aug 26, 2014 at 5:53 | comment | added | JoeT | I agree, if you bring up your concerns, your manager may be receptive and may not. if not, you can make the best of it, maybe they will appreciate that you are doing the high priority stuff whereas the new project may be a boondoggle to avoid; point being you never know when a negative may turn positive, try to keep a good outlook and do a good job in the meanwhile :) | |
| Aug 26, 2014 at 5:39 | comment | added | user9158 | Regardless of your employers methodology, someone is signing your and your colleagues pay cheques - they are responsible for your work, not your team. Speak with your manager and advise them of the situation. | |
| Aug 26, 2014 at 5:30 | comment | added | nysa | We work in Scrum.We work as a team where the team must pick up whats higher priority and our team has frequently advised each other on whats the next priority and has worked accordingly, as a lot of times we are not aware of pending work. my issue is - my colleague knows about the pending work, and still decides to ignore it. | |
| Aug 26, 2014 at 3:56 | history | answered | user9158 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |