Is my manager trying to make me resign
I've been heading a small project from several specified in the team's roadmap. While my manager is well aware of the delivery timeline, I face resistance from the scrum master when trying to add tasks to the backlog. The scrum master, who pre-grooms with my manager, suggests that higher-priority stories take precedence, moving the ones I added to the next sprint. Despite being tasked with working on the stories myself, my manager has mentioned that two new team members could assist, but in reality, I'm spending extra time helping them get up to speed and addressing their queries. This leaves me searching for less critical tasks for them, instead of reducing the project's development effort. Additionally, I'm consistently pulled into analyzing production issues, even if some of them aren't directly linked to my code. I've communicated my limited capacity this sprint and asked which tasks should take priority, receiving the response that all tasks need to be delivered this sprint. Eventually, I might need to drop some tasks, but if I choose to abandon work related to the project I'm leading, it could negatively impact my performance review. I hope this is just my speculation, but could it suggest that my manager wants me to voluntarily leave the team?
Uh. What you just described is a job working in software, except the part where your company still employs a scrum master as a separate job. 90% of the above is normal. Adding tasks to a backlog shouldn't be met with resistance. Are you saying adding tasks to the current sprint?
To the following sprint. We are asked to keep churn into consideration. Agile related I guess this is normal, even if the company I work for isn’t a tech company
Refining and tweaking what's in the next sprint isn't churn at all.
Don’t worry, finance companies are desperate for engineers. Your job is safe.
Escalate in writing to your boss and the scrum masters boss that the there is no cooperation and hence time line cannot be met. Move out of that gourd.
You’re on a bad team. I’ve been there before where different types of managers disagree at what I should deliver. At the end of the sprint this means at least one manager is mad. There’s nothing you can do but to do what you can and switch jobs if you need to.