[hinkley]

You are not wrong.

It’s hard not to look at the inadequate meeting space in most office plans and not take it as a giant hint that they just want you to “shut up and code”. I think we often get confused between the Right thing and the expedient/practical thing. There’s certainly a lemonade from lemons aspect to stand ups.

I would conjecture that there’s an Icarus aspect to Scrum. The other agile methodologies tried to massage the limits and strengths of typical programmers, managers and customers, to save our sanity and throw management enough bones to let us be weird, but not too weird. Scrum looks a lot more like Business as Usual, and so the MBAs embraced it and made it their own.

[srtjstjsj]

The lack of meeting rooms is because they want to save money on real estate and rationalize it as meetings are supposed to happen in the bullpen where everyone can hear and contribute. If they wanted people to shut up and code they'd have personal offices or cubicles