Four out of every eight hours a day in process-related meetings doesn’t sound very agile to me. I’ve done plenty of actually-agile development and it’s always

Four out of every eight hours a day in process-related meetings doesn’t sound very agile to me. I’ve done plenty of actually-agile development and it’s always involved one meeting at the start of an iteration to select the items to work on from the backlog, a daily 15-minute standup to address any blockers for our immediate work, and then a couple hours at the end of the iteration to demo the completed work and do a retrospective for anything unexpected that came up. That’s always worked great for me, especially combined with sizing work items in points rather than time so estimates come out of measurement of previous work rather than guesses about how long things will take.