You lost me there. This is the fundamental problem with Scrum; this type of paternalism where "programmer" is a synonym for "idiotic code monkey", borderline autistic who isn't capable of dealing with demand from the outside. And all programmers are the same, all organisations are the same and all type of development work is the same. Everywhere. If only we would be doing "Agile" right.
The protection in Scrum is "opt out". By default the process says that you're protected.
If the team feels that they don't need it or want it, they can drop it and just hang an "extra work and ad-hoc requests welcome" sign on their team area :)
Most teams I've worked with want to focus on the agreed work just among the team for the assigned sprint length and not have to deal with ad-hoc requests.
You lost me there. This is the fundamental problem with Scrum; this type of paternalism where "programmer" is a synonym for "idiotic code monkey", borderline autistic who isn't capable of dealing with demand from the outside. And all programmers are the same, all organisations are the same and all type of development work is the same. Everywhere. If only we would be doing "Agile" right.