My old group started "doing agile." We had daily scrums. They quickly turned into status meetings for the PMs to bubble up micro-progress reports. This, on a t

My old group started "doing agile." We had daily scrums. They quickly turned into status meetings for the PMs to bubble up micro-progress reports. This, on a team with four engineers and three QA types. We sat next to each other. We didn't need standups, we needed to be left alone to do work. Finally, on one project the PM (who had appointed himself scrumlord) finally let us meet only twice a week, and had the common decency to call the meetings "status". Call things what they are.