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WTF kind of Agile process is that? I've never heard of anyone having daily demos. The processes I've seen schedule them for every 2-3 weeks. If you're referring stand-up meetings, the people involved in those aren't supposed to be managers, they are supposed to be the people who you are directly working with.
Sure. You can have daily sprints if you like --- if you know what you're doing. The rule with frameworks is this: the more time you spend thinking and screwing around with the framework, the more you're either doing it wrong or it's hurting more than helping. Scrum/Agile should just work , just like your C compiler just works . It's a tool that operates almost invisibly in the background while you make stuff people w…
Scrum/Agile can help competent people who want to improve get better at delivering software that is valuable to their users. No process will magically turn incompetent people with no interest in improving into a productive software team.