I always found it smarter to simply nod and stay quiet when people were blathering in that mode. Then go back to adding actual value, by doing actual work, that created things that the company could actually sell for actual money. Almost all the blather eventually went away, along with the blatherers (and was replaced by blather that used different words to say the same amount of nothing). I did enjoy the fad of having stand up meetings. And “Agile” worked pretty well as long as the group (and the tools) were able to cope with the reality of discovering trouble part way into the development process.
I always found it smarter to simply nod and stay quiet when people were blathering in that mode. Then go back to adding actual value, by doing actual work, that created things that the company could actually sell for actual money. Almost all the blather eventually went away, along with the blatherers (and was replaced by blather that used different words to say the same amount of nothing). I did enjoy the fad of having stand up meetings. And “Agile” worked pretty well as long as the group (and the tools) were able to cope with the reality of discovering trouble part way into the development process.