In my current team we’re exactly on the opposite situation. Daily standup is the only agile-like meeting that works for us. The rest of meetings have converged

In my current team we’re exactly on the opposite situation. Daily standup is the only agile-like meeting that works for us. The rest of meetings have converged into a weird thing were everyone is interrogated about the tasks needed until the release, and everyone has learned quickly that the trick is listing your tasks in excruciating detail, because they will be valued at least 1 point, and you can inflate your way up into doing little while looking very busy. Then we collectively assign point estimates, which is a nuisance because everyone is making the estimates in hours and then trying to convert to points with a very impractical 5/8 ratio, and also completely pointless because our team is so diverse and specialized, that no one really understands their tasks except themselves. In the whole, I’ve estimated to be losing about 2 full days every 10 working days into this madness, while no clarity is gained. We (still) discover our blockers on our daily meetings and have enough backlog that blockers just imply reshuffling the work around.