I completely agree. I was a certified scrum master, scrum master of a team of 6 for 2 years, and was directly coached by an external (and expensive) scrum consultant. We got pretty deep into the scrum process, even going so far as to estimate and track the number of hours each task would take. After all of that, my takeaway is that thoughtful, engaging retrospectives are the only scrum "event" or process that a team should do. Want to do a stand up meeting only once a week? Go for it. You think pointing stories is a waste of time? Cool, spend that hour coding instead. But you have to regularly check in and make sure your process is actually working, and then put some effort into improving it.
Also, don't forget to retro your retros. Maybe a 2 hour meeting twice a month is a waste of time because your team is already great at providing feedback and trying new things naturally. Getting rid of the meeting might be the best thing as long as there is a viable alternative way for everyone to provide feedback and suggestions.
how did you estimate hours? do you mean that the team estimated "story points" and it was so precise and the team was so good at meeting the per-sprint point load that it was basically a nice hour estimate? or did you estimate hours directly?
Regardless of one's opinion on immigration however, suddenly creating an immediately invoked executive order with no warning, no grace period, and no plan for what comes next is reckless and will needlessly cause harm to many people who were just trying to do what's best for themselves while acting fully within the law and system as it exists (er, existed).
It is a morally bereft and politically motivated action, which is to say, exactly what we should all expect from the narcissistic orange clown in the Oval Office.
> Regardless of one's opinion on immigration however, suddenly creating an immediately invoked executive order with no warning, no grace period, and no plan for what comes next
There's been warning that something like this was coming for a while, and it's been broadly expected since the April 22 immigration halt order, given the way Trump had previously railed against the existing H-1B system as worker-hostile and the entire justification for the April 22 immigration halt was the threat to US workers from immigrants in the present crisis.
Also, don't forget to retro your retros. Maybe a 2 hour meeting twice a month is a waste of time because your team is already great at providing feedback and trying new things naturally. Getting rid of the meeting might be the best thing as long as there is a viable alternative way for everyone to provide feedback and suggestions.