My team works in an agile fashion. I simply stay out of their way and every week they finish what they promised to finish. The team is high-quality and hasn't missed targets or estimates. Most of our "ceremonies" are purely for socialization, as decided by the team.
But this is extremely fragile, because it takes a lot of energy to fight external people (often product people) who want to remove the self-management aspect.
Unless this is in the DNA of the company, you can't have agile or real Scrum, because it threatens those kinds of power-grabs. For this to work, you literally need someone threatening to fire people who attempt to micromanage others.
But this is extremely fragile, because it takes a lot of energy to fight external people (often product people) who want to remove the self-management aspect.
Unless this is in the DNA of the company, you can't have agile or real Scrum, because it threatens those kinds of power-grabs. For this to work, you literally need someone threatening to fire people who attempt to micromanage others.