Why do PMs consistently punish hard workers? I know the phrasing of my question may come across as immature, but honestly I've seen this pattern over and over where PMs punish hard workers and award people who are slow. To put things into perspective, the team I'm on adheres strictly to scrum which from what I've seen causes more harm than good. We keep getting asked by management to implement new features, and meanwhile bugs and other backlog items don't ever get included in sprint planning. The app is falling apart due to half-baked features being piled one on top of the other. Recently, to help play catch-up, I started pushing to operate under the following system: \- Sprint commitments (in this case the new features requested by management) are the highest priority and should be done first. \- If anyone has spare time, then they can pull backlog items into the sprint. These extra items are tagged as "unscoped" on the board. However, the PM has shut down this idea completely.…