[locknitpicker]

People must realize that it's people who book meetings, not processes.

And some of them book meetings to try to justify their presence.

Blaming scrum for having meetings on the calendar is a scapegoat. You will have those meetings show up regardless of what processes you chose to replace scrum.

[dijit]

Lies, damned lies.

SCRUM by definition is meetings.

in fact, I like this topic, because usually people use the motte and bailey of Agile. (as in, Agile is a manifesto to some, or a process to someone else) but scrum is super well defined, and it is defined by: structured meetings.

[kibibu]

Is there, in Scrum, a meeting "to plan the meetings about the meetings", as the critique suggests?

My understanding is there are 3 meetings in core scrum:

- planning (which is not about planning meetings, but about breaking down work)

- review

- retrospective

None of those are 2nd or 3rd order "meeting planning" meetings.

If people throw in backlog grooming or other sessions, that's up to them.