I sure hope someone higher up in the management hierarchy learns about the events that happened. The person who posted the question states that some managers ab

I sure hope someone higher up in the management hierarchy learns about the events that happened. The person who posted the question states that some managers above him or her are on leave, so people up the food chain might not hear about it. Obviously as an outsider I don't know the specifics, but if the team overall felt their manager was unilaterally instituting bad policies and further felt intimidated and unable to speak freely about it in front of the manager (as mentioned in some of the comments further down), then the manager probably should be fired. Being a manager means you work for your direct reports, and facilitate their ability to do their job, while intermediating with other internal stakeholders in a way that protects your team. Unilaterally walking in and saying, "I know y'all do great with your preferred Waterfall approach, but fuck you, here's Scrum" is outrageous. Being a manager does not confer that sort of unilateral dictator behavior to you. Separately, the Scrum master probably should also be fired for not first trying to transition the conversation of that retro meeting into a feedback meeting, and asking people to think of it more like, "how can we give feedback to the manager, and how can we customize and tailor fit something in Scrum to make you guys happy?" ... and then go talk to the manager privately about it before having meetings with the team that are ostensibly about team policy. In the best teams I've worked on, we would have team policy meetings and mutually come up with our working agreement about the behavior, attitude, and workflows we expected from ourselves and each other, and we would produce documentation (usually in some version control system, preferably with 'code review' for the team to weigh in on any proposals for policy changes). Treat people like grown ups. If these people are pulling such a mutiny, there is probably good reason.