Agile and Scrum are not the same thing, and I think that's probably the most important idea to understand about Scrum.
With Agile, if you can't draw a clear, bright line from some ritual you're doing to meaningful value, you need to drop that ritual immediately. With scrum, it tends to be "all-or-nothing", even if it's not quite meant to be.
Even something as "fundamental" as stand-ups or sprints need to have clear value for your team[1], or you need to drop them, and I think a lot of leaders are afraid of doing so lest they lose the "magic" of Agile.
[1] FWIW I do think stand-ups are usually valuable, but only if, "Nothing to report." is a 100% allowed thing to say. As a lead, I like to do this myself a bunch early on to show its acceptability.
With Agile, if you can't draw a clear, bright line from some ritual you're doing to meaningful value, you need to drop that ritual immediately. With scrum, it tends to be "all-or-nothing", even if it's not quite meant to be.
Even something as "fundamental" as stand-ups or sprints need to have clear value for your team[1], or you need to drop them, and I think a lot of leaders are afraid of doing so lest they lose the "magic" of Agile.
[1] FWIW I do think stand-ups are usually valuable, but only if, "Nothing to report." is a 100% allowed thing to say. As a lead, I like to do this myself a bunch early on to show its acceptability.