Sometimes I feel like sprints put unnecessary pressure on the team. It's always a rush to finish things in two weeks. Scrums, which are supposed to be 15 min at always at least twice that long. And most projects I've been on have been bogged down by so many other meetings that the team never finished their work within the sprint deadline.
I find scrum tends to focus people on doing small tasks without considering the big picture. A lot of the time you start doing a task, and then you realize there are other aspects of the system that may need to be changed to accommodate the functionality. With scrum the tendency is to just to make a kludge so you can mark the feature as complete without thinking about the broader implications.
And what I find happens with standups is that updates are either meaningless because you don't have the context of the work other people are doing, or people start going into details and the meeting drags on for an hour.
"Now we all know that story points represent complexity rather than a specific amount of time, but let's just say that hypothetically each story point is a day."
"So you want to know how many days it's going to take?"
i always hated that the us version of this show felt like they needed to say this explicitly, that was one of the best things about the british version is that the points were a cute little joke that didn’t need to be spelled out
That's always the difference between American and British TV as well - the British shows have intelligence and the American shows have good looking actors but are plain dumb. :)
In the other hand, Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul are American and they are brilliant.
Americans don’t generally get to see the shows where British people are being really dumb, except for the Benny Hill Show - we’re all super confused why the Benny Hill Show is a cultural touchstone in the States.