> People rambled on about who they sent mail to, what meetings they had etc. because it showed "importance" of their work. Yeah, I ran into that more than once

> People rambled on about who they sent mail to, what meetings they had etc. because it showed "importance" of their work. Yeah, I ran into that more than once. Scrum turns into a daily performance evaluations which tends to encourage micromanagement. And this is something I don't get. Managers complain about getting too many emails that they have to read through, but yet they're fine with 5 minute status reports from every member on their 10 person team on a daily basis. Every company that I worked for that had retrospectives dropped them, as they were pretty much useless. Because once a team optimized internal processes, the thing they couldn't optimize was the external managemalaise that impeded their ability to get things out on time. And that never ever flowed upwards.