
The Ceremonial Slowdown: Why Agile Rituals Aren't Always Sacred
Let me paint you a picture: It’s Monday morning. Your team gathers for sprint planning. Tuesday brings the daily stand-up where everyone recites their tasks like sleep-deprived zombies. Wednesday? Grooming session. Thursday? Review. Friday? Retrospective. Rinse and repeat until the heat death of the universe. If this sounds suspiciously like a liturgical calendar rather than a development process, you might be suffering from ceremony overload – the Agile equivalent of filling your codebase with comments that say “fix later....