[y-c-o-m-b]

> If I could just code without being a slave to a scrum master or being product micromanaged.. I would never leave the industry.

My current job has zero planning meetings and a standup twice a week with 20 people attending that lasts about 7 minutes on average; standup is literally "what are you working on and are you blocked?". If the person rambles in standup, our boss cuts them off and has the next person go. It's been this way for at least a year and a half (when I started). We're given wire-frames or high-level designs of what needs to be built and the target goal date. Developers are then left to code with nearly full autonomy. We always deliver the product early. I've worked in so very many places over the last decade and a half - from huge corporations to small startups - and if all of them took this approach, they would've increased their productivity at least 10-fold.

[alexfromapex]

This is almost exactly what we do and I love it but there's one exception. We have sprint review meetings on the last day of our sprint where several product teams present what they accomplished during the sprint. It works fine for people in time zones where it's the end of their day but for others they have to present what they achieved during the sprint, while the sprint hasn't ended. It's been shocking to see how vehemently the scrum masters have fought to not move it to the first day of the new sprint. Cargo cult agile is probably the worst part about the industry.