Our team implemented "Strict Agile" this quarter.
We now have Daily Standups, Backlog Grooming, Sprint Planning, and bi-weekly Retrospectives.
Yesterday, my Lead Engineer calculated our actual velocity.
We spent 14 hours this week in meetings planning how to write 4 hours of code.
We didn't increase our output. We didn't improve our product. We just built a highly efficient, data-driven bureaucracy.
If eight developers are forced to stand in a circle every morning and recite Jira ticket numbers to each other, you aren't doing Agile. You are doing a corporate roll call.
Real agility isn't about how many story points you burn down. It's about how much software you actually ship.
Stop optimizing the meetings. Start writing the code.