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[quote=Anonymous]My team has 4 developers including me. One of the developer has not been performing work well and the 2 other developers think it is unfair to them and started documenting about this developer's work. These 2 developers approached me for my opinion and I told them that I would not be right person to bring this to.  
All the developers have a Dev lead (that is in a different team). These 2 developers had the option to complain to Dev lead or to scrum master or both. They chose to complain to scrum master.

Scrum master escalated this to the leadership and leadership brought this to Dev lead's attention. The Dev lead is not liking the fact that scrum master did not reach him directly but instead reached out to the leadership.

Note: In the past, some other developers including me complained about this developer to the Dev lead and each time Dev lead brushed it off saying that the developer has 3 or 4 years of experience and will improve with time. Also scrum master reached out to Dev lead directly in the past regarding this developer. Not sure what the outcome of that discussion was as it was never made transparent to the team.

Long story short, Dev lead is now asking me why I was not doing a daily followup with the developer about his tasks or work. Our teams are following agile methodology and each team member is responsible for his or her own work. Also in the past, I used help this developer a lot but he always dumps his work on me and never thanked me for any help.

The Dev lead has assigned me to coach the developer and literally asked me to micro-manage this developer's work. I am in a company with a lot of policies and rules. I am not sure how I can manage or micro-manage other person who does not directly report to me.
Also I worked with this developer for close to 2 years and most times ended up completing his work for him. Helping him is not matter of an hour or two per week. It is pretty much either I complete his work or he screen-shares and I make him do his work which can take up many hours in a given week.
This developer is not some one who is interested in taking feedback and improving.

I need some advice on how to handle this situation. I don't want to end up doing this developer's work and at the same time making sure he completes his work so that I can provide the same status to the Dev lead. 
Since I did not get this task of monitoring developer's work in writing (scrum master does not know that Dev lead assigned this work to me), there is no way I can provide a status that I helped this developer. [/quote]

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