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Scrum is useless.

it's just another method of demanding results. Where there isn't anything to tell, you shouldn't be forced to do so. All this imbecility does is to create competition, and weed out the ones that don't comply.

I've worked in teams where we were forced to have something to report even when nothing was to report. This made the team create "things" to match their daily scrums, because the truth might get you fired..

Those that actually do work, have nothing to say in these scrums. It's a fact.

Intellectual work is never measured.

[rightbyte]

> Those that actually do work, have nothing to say in these scrums. It's a fact.

There is something fundamental here.

Competent programmers make it look like they slack off and what they do is easy.

The ones who create problems that in practice only they can fix and seem blocked all the time are the ones that seem productive in an agile environment.

I guess that is the reason standups evolve into some sort of status update, finger pointing and bragging contest.

[ath3nd]

> All this imbecility does is to create competition, and weed out the ones that don't comply.

This ten million times. It's about control, and it's about showing you that the only way to be considered to be doing your job, is if you abandon all dignity, and allow yourself to be treated as a child.

The adults (POs and managerial folk) are making your planning, your regime, you constantly report to them them what you are busy with, you summarize what you learned last week and what you'd be doing today, and you present to them your paintings for evaluation. It's so degrading and humiliating, but that's by design!