At my current job, scrum is just a half hour meeting every day where people discuss whatever for however long and the most important is the status update to make sure management knows that you are working. The upside is we don't do sprints, retrospectives, scrum master etc. although estimates are still required. Someone will probably claim this is not scrum, the no true Scotsman fallacy. I wouldn't mind much if it wasn't early in the morning at such a shitty time it messes up the whole day's schedule by interrupting sleep for no reason. Whatever. It's management's loss as contributing meaningfully, by speaking or listening, is simply impossible. The half hour duration is extreme. It's a great argument against such meetings, regardless of what they are called, especially morning meetings. It definitely makes the whole day and especially the morning much less productive due to draining the natural energy one has in the morning. Really, I can't think of a way it could be worse other than it being earlier and longer.