Engineers won't just naturally align with the organization if nobody rewards us for doing so.
Hoes does Scrum reward the engineer for such alignment?
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Hoes does Scrum reward the engineer for such alignment?
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How does Scrum reward the engineer, in a way that it does it better, and more profoundly, than other methodologies?
As the author noted, Scrum solves this problem by making number of story points completed the primary tool for a team to measure its productivity. If the cool-sounding project isn't important enough to take other items out of the sprint, there's no way to offer a post-hoc justification for doing it anyway. It has no story points, so work on it is considered non-productive.