[watwut]

> Aren’t these interactions put in place to create transparency across the team regarding progress and purpose as well as empirical validation?

Original motivation does not changes anything, we are talking about effect here. Effect is the same.

Also, transparency regarding progress and purpose does not require scrum. I dont know what you mean by "empirical validation".

I don't recall the "not knowing the progress" being issue in any methodology for developers. Maybe, most of the time we dont really need to know how fast tasks are progressing. Speed on other tasks is important for management, but not for me. I need to know their thoughts about codebase, about where to go, what they consider issues and such. But progress, not so much.