One of my last clients used scrum (I was a contractor).  The boss ran a fortune 500 company during the day and decided to take everything she learned to run her own small 20-person company.<p>Our standups lasted minimum 1 hour every day.  Every Thursday we had a show-and-tell meeting, which meant going through everything we worked on and fixed (some of these meetings lasted 3 hours) and we also had a pre-planning and post-planning scrum meeting, each lasting 3 hours.<p>At one point I was charging the company more for meetings than actual work (it was 70&#x2F;30 meetings to work).<p>I finally left when we added another 1-hour meeting on Fridays where we would just tell a joke, funny story, or something about our life.  Since the majority of other contractors&#x2F;developers on the team were from other countries (and didn&#x27;t speak English very well), it was one of the most awkward situations I&#x27;ve ever encountered at work.