A coworker asked me for help so they could finish their task on time. That meant that I had to be a bit late for one of mine. They blamed me for delaying the whole team because I didn't finish mine on time. 😕

Well, to be fair I'd say it's your responsibility to be able to say that you need to prioritize your own work. If you think their work is more important to get done it might be a good idea to make sure it's agreed upon not only by you but by the rest of your team or you boss as well.

You don't help other ones if you don't have time to spare. Nuff said.

Something is probably deeply wrong in the system if other tasks depend on one task so heavily. And teamwork should be encouraged. Just reply that you helped someone and it wasn't clear which item should be blocked: yours or theirs.

Possibly one of the only advantages of a daily stand up!

"I have been helping dipshit with their tasks, so I haven't been able to work on my ticket(s)"

@nibor true story 😄

If the system's main incentive is to finish your own tasks without worrying about your teammate's problems, then just do it.

Then asks yourself if, it's the kind of value you're OK validating by staying in the company.

@jotamontecino I guess it should be more like "do the one that is more important". But in any case the fact of some slowdown should have been noted and stated to the manager before the end of the sprint.

Make sure if you ‘help’ someone, you do the commits…

@iiii you might think that because it seems rational... Now a lot of management have no skills related to... Management... So they set incentives that do not help to ensure that critical stuff is prioritized...

@jotamontecino I guess I am lucky to have managers that do understand things and don't go against developers unless there's a real necessity

@iiii it's crazy sometimes how something that should be normal (rational way of think while working) is not.
You are lucky... Which is really sad for our industry!