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How an entire generation reinvented the meeting, renamed the to-do list, and convinced corporate America that putting on socks requires a two-week sprint. There was a time, not so very long ago, when companies employed people who possessed a remarkable and apparently extinct skill: the ability to do their jobs without assembling in a circle every morning to discuss the emotional journey of doing them. These primitive workers operated in an astonishingly unsophisticated enviro

Scrum is what happens when a decent idea gets fossilized into dogma and then sold as “agile.” It promises speed, adaptability, and empowered teams—but in practice, it often delivers theater, bureaucracy, and a calendar full of meetings that actively prevent work from getting done. Let’s start with the meeting addiction. Daily standups, sprint planning, backlog refinement, sprint review, retrospective—Scrum turns knowledge workers into professional meeting attendees. The irony