Compared to what? My experiance of traditional project managment is we used to have milestones, write daily progress reports, requirement anaysis meetings with

Compared to what? My experiance of traditional project managment is we used to have milestones, write daily progress reports, requirement anaysis meetings with BA's etc In my mind scrum has less bureaucracy than that. Scrum Meetings are best used as a way to come together as a team to work how to make progress today. For example: I want to deploy this change to prod today, but one of the tests is failing and I don't know why. Ok lets get a couple of people to mob on the test to figure out whats going on after scrum etc That's a good scrum meeting. Bad scrum meeting. Person 1: I did x yesterday. Person 2: I did x yesterday etc Person 3: I tried to get x done yesterday, but I got stuck i'll try again today. No value whatsoever. The emphasis should be on problem solving as a team, and focusing the team on pain points to get work across the finish line. To that end i find "walking the board" far more valuable, than status updates from each memeber.