not struggling with it, just hating it. if you think about it, small teams that communicate well do not need to have formal daily meetings and story boards. therefore agile is a crutch. this is analogous to how people who have social adjustment problems resort to drugs like a crutch - its a structured externalized way of coping with ones deficiencies.

also real software engineers use waterfall. imagine for a moment, engineers on the joint strike fighter project creating user stories and attending standup meeting every day to discuss their progress.

i dont know. in the good old days, we called meeting in real time, and huddled in a conference room when needed. this is how its always worked, and if the team is not made of dysfunctional developers it works wonderfully.