Scrum stuff was just astonishingly bad in my experience. As I told my company via feedback surveys, of all the bad ideas I saw in 40 years in the business, on a scale of 100 (100 being horrible), prior to Agile/Scrum, nothing else was worse than say 40. Scrum was 95.
Biological organisms route around damage. Agile/Scrum is damage, and we programmers routed around that damage as best we could. Only cults should have ceremonies.
The concept of using a piece of software to record the work to be done is good. How you define that work and how much work you put into it is the crux of the issue.
Instead of Agile/Scrum I always advocated a method I called Common Sense.
In the dedicated Kobo ebook app on my computer (a thinly disguised stripped-down web browser), I am always asked to solve a CAPTCHA before purchasing a book. Now that is depressing. Typically I am doing this before bed time because I forgot that I just finished my last book and I need to start a new one immediately and I'm tired.
To top it off, I cannot re-size the CAPTCHA widget in this pseudo-browser and the images are very small. How the heck am I to tell the difference between a sailboat and bus at that resolution? I just want to read a book
I'm all for computer dating, but I wouldn't want one to marry my sister.