Extremely. You'd take ten seconds to say what you had to say. Sometimes you'd say "I need help with SQL", say, and someone would say "I'll help", and you'd be done.
But we had a real agile guru on the team. We didn't do "Agile Methodology" exactly; we did Extreme Programming, and we kept tweaking it. Sometimes he'd say "let's try changing our approach in this way for the next two iterations, and see how it works out". We'd do the experiment, and keep the changes or not. We kept hacking and experimenting with the process, in a controlled way, but never in a "this is how it's done" way.
So if you have an "Agile is the one right way" person trying to run your team with big-A Agile, and he/she wants to do 30-person standups, you're probably in trouble...
Sounds great! Keeping track of how well the process itself is working, especially, and being willing to continually tweak it to fit the team and project.
But we had a real agile guru on the team. We didn't do "Agile Methodology" exactly; we did Extreme Programming, and we kept tweaking it. Sometimes he'd say "let's try changing our approach in this way for the next two iterations, and see how it works out". We'd do the experiment, and keep the changes or not. We kept hacking and experimenting with the process, in a controlled way, but never in a "this is how it's done" way.
So if you have an "Agile is the one right way" person trying to run your team with big-A Agile, and he/she wants to do 30-person standups, you're probably in trouble...