> If you aren't following the Scrum practices, then you aren't doing Scrum. For better or worse.
Dogma.
> It's like baking a cake without adding sugar; it's not really a cake anymore.
Nonsense.
> No doubt they weren't getting value out of them
This piece goes against this piece:
> , but that doesn't mean they were doing things well and they lost opportunity to improve as a group.
Why would you continue to follow a process you don't find value in? If you didn't like a process, why would you feel like bringing that process up in a process-oriented equally-useless meeting? This is the dogmatism. "Well even though the meeting wasn't valuable you still should've tried". To what end?
> For context, currently, I manage a team of 60ish without Scrum. I see Scrum as a bit dated now.
Less interested in size, more interested in throughput/attrition.