> 4 out of 8 hours every day in meetings Does not sound like agile. Standup is a 15 minute affair, planning & retrospective a once every 2-week (however long y

> 4 out of 8 hours every day in meetings Does not sound like agile. Standup is a 15 minute affair, planning & retrospective a once every 2-week (however long your sprints are) event 1-2 hours long. That's all. Roughly 4 hours for every 80 hours of work. Whatever you have going on there is probably a wild detour off SCRUM inflicted by agile consultants, which seems to be very common these days.