Not an Agile extremist. If done effectively agile is a simple framework for aligning on work, having some cadence for updates and accepting or rejecting work ba

Not an Agile extremist. If done effectively agile is a simple framework for aligning on work, having some cadence for updates and accepting or rejecting work based on quality and alignment. I personally dislike when it's made significantly more complex. High-performing teams can work in a standard Scrum framework or they can customize agile to suite their needs. If you're spending hours a day in meetings, you're not using the framework correctly. In a fell-functioning team, you'll spend 5-10min max doing some form of standup, in some teams this is even async so no daily meeting. That leaves one planning meeting every two weeks and one review meeting to see how you've done.