Consider this to be a warning shot across the bow to all of you pointy-haired project managers on Agile teams everywhere.
If you harass your developers once or twice every sprint about refactoring tasks that are open, prodding for when it’ll be done, complaining that they have no focus, and then saying that you don’t want to know the details and micro-manage how they spend their hours, you’re doing it wrong
If you push your developers to move on to the new stories on the front burner and then chide them later when older stories aren’t complete because they didn’t swarm the stories because they were working on something else, you’re doing it wrong.
If you spew the Agile dogma that the team members and task owners are the ones to say whether a task or story is complete and then turn around and try to trick your team into saying a task is done or a story is done-done-done when it isn’t, you’re doing it wrong.
If you have the nerve and lack of intellect to say during a Scrum that “testing is not part of the core business functionality”, you’re doing it wrong.
