> instead of being able to use that downtime to do things that practically everyone knows needs to get done, you have people sitting on their hands because ever

> instead of being able to use that downtime to do things that practically everyone knows needs to get done, you have people sitting on their hands because everything has to go through the "backlog." Oh man, this happened at one of my stricter scrum managed companies. There was a bug that people were noticing that should have meant that no other cards could pass QA. I recognized it as the small change that it was, made the branch, and had a peer ready to merge it, but got "a talking to" from the scrum master and product managers because they never recognized it as a bug.