Agree completely, for a period of time I was working scrumless and quite happy with it. Got a new manager and some new tech leads join and suddenly we need several stand ups, scrums, and checkins because they don’t know how else to figure out what’s going on. It sucks.
I’ve never witnessed “I’m having trouble on this” -> “Oh I ran into that before, have you seen X” in an official Scrum. Official Scrums are just status updates for your manager/other authority figure.
We’re also cargo culting other processes (sprint planning) that don’t even fit in with how our company does planning - we do everything quarterly, most tasks aren’t really re-assignable - so it’s just a shaming session for people who underestimated task lengths or are running behind.
I’ve never witnessed “I’m having trouble on this” -> “Oh I ran into that before, have you seen X” in an official Scrum. Official Scrums are just status updates for your manager/other authority figure.
We’re also cargo culting other processes (sprint planning) that don’t even fit in with how our company does planning - we do everything quarterly, most tasks aren’t really re-assignable - so it’s just a shaming session for people who underestimated task lengths or are running behind.