> Besides being a dream for micromanagers I really don't get how people come to this conclusion about scrum. The alternative to scrum is the Project manager di

> Besides being a dream for micromanagers I really don't get how people come to this conclusion about scrum. The alternative to scrum is the Project manager dictator regime, the literal micromanagers dream, where the pm can at any time jump by your desk and say "drop everything you are doing, and do this thing for me right now", and where the estimates are just whatever the PM decides to communicate, but when you fail to deliver a fully functional product in the 2 months the PM pulled out of thin air, it's somehow your fault. In Scrum, the PO should be prevented from micromanaging, since he's not telling anyone what to do. There's a product backlog which the PO can prioritize sure, but that's the level of interaction. The team pulls work into the iteration backlog, so nothing should be picked up that the team doesn't agree to do. And each individual team member picks tasks from the iteration backlog, so nothing should be forced upon you. As for the daily stand-ups there should be no management in that meeting, it's a 15 minut maximum meeting between only those who have items in the spring back-log, which most often should not include the PO. If it's turning into a day-by-day status meeting you need your Scrum Master to step in. The board and iteration deliveries should be enough status to go by.