I don't really understand this. I get that initiative is good. but there are lot of environments where you could really screw things up if your changing things with communicating. how does the change you introduced get tested? communicated to the customer? how do you know it wasn't a low priority task and had the product owner known there was capacity you couldn't have worked on something higher priority? to me that's the whole point of a backlog and a prioritization process. add it to the backlog and if you have a solution paste the solution into the comments so it can be prioritized.