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My manager gives me small work like write this doc for team, verify accounts, and small small task during the sprint apart from tasks assigned in the sprint. Although these are easy tasks? But it takes some time May be a one full day in 14 days kinda effort? Is this expected ? Or normal at tech? Some time I feel these small tasks should also be given as a task in sprint and effort associated. YOE : 1
It’s expected that minor work will come up. If it impacts your other work, raise it with your manager. They may want tickets or other worked dropped from the sprint.
This is normal and where all tension in scrum/agile methodologies largely lay: how can we focus ourselves to actually do fucking work on a managed cadence and resist the urge to give in and fold to “quick question” or “quick wiki edits” that obliterate ones attention. It’s normalized ESPECIALLY at Amazon. Been with three teams in four years with six managers, and all of them pull the same shit to fuck with sprints. It’s in good faith, but nonetheless it still fucks with sprints. Sprints here are all posture anyway - ever notice “scrum masters” are always just SDE’s rotated out? We jazzhand scrum through and through. The real, unsaid determiner of output is the Deliver Results LP. All work is based off the urgent desire to feed the hungry beast of Deliver Results
Propose to create a spike in each sprint and add all your unaccounted tasks there.
Depends. Scrum boards and backlogs are geared towards tracking specific work and/or projects. It may not necessarily be every possible thing each member of the team is doing. That said - the expectation shouldn't be that everyone is at 100% capacity and this work is on top of that. The team should reserve their own buffer so they can take care of some inevitable unplanned work.