[websitescenes]

I get the sense that the OP has never worked on a large team or massive product with a large surface area and competing goals. I get it, for a lot of smaller endeavors that only have a few devs then sprint ceremonies would be overkill. But if working on large project with many teams, the lack of structure would be almost certain death. Entertaining tirade though.

[denton-scratch]

I've worked on a giant team for a massive product. 200 developers, a wall of specifications. The project was cancelled after 4 years, I don't know how many squillions it cost. It was called Global Wholesale Banking.

[adrianmsmith]

> for a lot of smaller endeavors that only have a few devs then sprint ceremonies would be overkill

Nevertheless, such small teams (in my experience) use Scrum as well and it is indeed overkill.