I'm currently on two missions. In one of these, we kick ass. Deliver on schedule or even in advance. It's scrum, we simply work as a team of four and ship, ship, ship, ship, feature after feature and fix after fix. We have our hands free, management is trusting our cell with the strategic future of their Tech tree, and we deliver.
In the other mission, I am not making this up, I spend 1hour/day on poor excuses of stand up meetings, 3 hours/day in various meetings, 1hour/day on various administrative tasks and 3 hours/day preparing powerpoint plannings for the meetings of the next day, and I'm a dev. I work with equally awesome devs in either mission, but in this one the customer is absolutely crazy inefficient and a control freak, and the best example of what NOT to do with scrum I've ever seen.
So who is more competent? The me that's killing it with scrum in the first mission or the me that can't do anything because of scrum in the second mission?