It is a status report in companies doing "Scrum" - usually after CTO paid an Agile-with-a-capital-A consultant. I've been a bit of volunteer agile coaching in

It is a status report in companies doing "Scrum" - usually after CTO paid an Agile-with-a-capital-A consultant. I've been a bit of volunteer agile coaching in my area, and yeah, one example that always stuck with me was that the product managers and BAs just got renamed product owners, and they sat in every retro and attended every stand-up. Funnily enough they were never available to the team during planning. They had important meetings on a Monday... I tried to empathise to them that "stand-up and retro are solely for the team", but no dice. They still wanted that command and control.