[auxym]

I have not worked in software for long (a year, a while ago) but my experience with agile at that time was that even if you realize that you can and should fix something, you still have do political representation to the scrum master, team lead and product manager so that an issue (sorry, user story) is created and gets prioritized (over features and other bugs) in a future sprint.

Going rogue and spending an afternoon fixing stuff without an approved US (to charge time on) was not seen well.

[julius_set]

Unfortunately this is often the case at larger companies, unless you find a really cool manager / PM to work under who just trusts you — note this can be achieved over time.

I’m talking from personal experience of going rogue :)