As an agile coach I often have Scrum Masters come up to me because management is complaining there are too many meetings in Scrum and that their developers aren't 100% utilised on developing the products. I also have developers asking me if they can skip the Sprint Review and Retrospective as they have some work to finish off for the sprint and that is a much better use of their time than sitting in a meeting.  Why is it that so many people walk away from a Scrum event saying it was a waste of time, boring or not relevant to them? It's easy to be tempted to just drop an event, but each scrum event has a purpose that contributes to the overall outcomes so a better way would be to make these Scrum Events more effective and show the value each events contributes.

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