“Since switching to Scrum, my entire days are nothing but meetings.”

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Saw this post from an engineer venting about their team’s switch from Kanban to Scrum, and honestly… it’s rough.

Here’s the thing: it’s not that SCRUM is the villain. Or that meetings are bad.

It’s when meetings pile up so much they get in the way of the actual work, that’s where it breaks.

This post hit me because I’ve seen it happen a lot.

More meetings ≠ more alignment.
More meetings ≠ more productivity.

At Rally, we’ve been thinking:
- How do teams know which meetings are really worth it?
- How do you cut the ones that don’t need to happen without losing clarity?
- And how do you make async work… actually work?

That’s what we’re building towards, helping teams figure out when to meet, when not to, and keeping everyone in sync without adding more noise inside Jira.

Check us out on the Atlassian marketplace: Rally for Jira

Curious: What’s one meeting on your calendar you’d gladly cancel (or turn async) right now?