Take the 2-minute tour ×  This question has been cooking in my
head for a while so I wanted to ask those who are following
agile/scrum practices in their development environments.  My
company has finally ventured into incorporating agile practices
and has started out with a team of 4 developers in an agile
group on a trial basis. It has been 4 months with 3 iterations
and they continue to do it without going fully agile for the
rest of us. This is due to the fact that management's trust to
meet business requirements with a quite a bit of ad hoc type
request from high above.  Recently, I talked to the developers
who are part of this initiative; they tell me that it's not fun.
They are not allowed to talk to other developers by their Scrum
master and are not allowed to take any phone calls in the work
area (which maybe fine to an extent). For example, if I want to
talk to my friend for kicks who is in the agile team, I am not
allowed without the approval of the Scrum master; who is sitting
right next to the agi