“We hold a meeting to talk about the meetings, and another to plan the meetings about the meetings.“
I dropped scrum last year.
I dropped scrum last year.
And some of them book meetings to try to justify their presence.
Blaming scrum for having meetings on the calendar is a scapegoat. You will have those meetings show up regardless of what processes you chose to replace scrum.
SCRUM by definition is meetings.
in fact, I like this topic, because usually people use the motte and bailey of Agile. (as in, Agile is a manifesto to some, or a process to someone else) but scrum is super well defined, and it is defined by: structured meetings.
My understanding is there are 3 meetings in core scrum:
- planning (which is not about planning meetings, but about breaking down work)
- review
- retrospective
None of those are 2nd or 3rd order "meeting planning" meetings.
If people throw in backlog grooming or other sessions, that's up to them.