Scrum doesn’t have velocity and burn-down charts. Those are add-on Agile extras. Scrum is simple, but it’s so annoying how people make everything so complicat

Scrum doesn’t have velocity and burn-down charts. Those are add-on Agile extras. Scrum is simple, but it’s so annoying how people make everything so complicated. When I start working on something, we may have an idea of how much effort it is, but often you dig into the code and find gnarly tangles, or the model has more gotchas than people realize and the person doing the work is the one person who has the entire model loaded into their head at the moment. Yes, a manager might need to verify people are actually working, but if the manager is capable it shouldn’t require burn-down charts which can be full of inaccuracies. It often takes actual thinking to get real work done and micromanagers hovering about do not help with producing thoughtful work. Scrum just says to get some help from friends when you need it, communicate about what could make your job better in the next few weeks, and are we breaking things down into bite-size pieces or do people have unrealistic expectations?