[adrianmsmith]

> Its the 15m daily everyday, then a retro and a planning once per sprint. I understand it is too much for a one-week sprint (as stated in the post) but how is that too much otherwise?

One place I worked at had two week sprints. The entirety of one day every sprint was spent on demo, retro, planning, commitment. But because the scrum master had to "build" a sprint and couldn't do that without knowing the size of tickets, there were two morning meetings every week to "analyse" tickets.

So you had: Week 1, 1 full day Scrum day, 2 half days. Week 2: 2 half days. So 3 days out of the 10 day sprint, so 30% time spent on Scrum.

Plus standups, so the hour before the standup nobody did anything (as judged by the number of PRs and comments and Slack activity) so that's an hour plus the time for standup every single day.

Maybe that's insanity, I mean I certainly thought so, but these things do happen.