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The Ceremony on the Wrong Track

A Scrum Manager strip

Four-panel comic strip: two coworkers form the daily stand-up circle with four AI screens; he recites the three ritual questions, the screens answer in unison, and the two walk away with their coffees while the screens restart the liturgy on their own.
The concept

Team syncs, as Agile Bedrock describes them, are meetings with an empirical purpose: to align, inspect and adapt. They are not mandatory rituals: if a sync adds no value, it is changed or dropped. The daily sync, in particular, is not a status report but a tactical alignment between people; and when work runs on the assisted track, that track does not hold meetings: the human track synchronizes, the assisted track is monitored. Reciting the three ritual questions to the agents is keeping the form of the ceremony after emptying it of its purpose: the meeting is to align people.

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