Let’s be honest: most engineers view Scrum as a collection of pointless meetings that get in the way of actual work. If you’ve been told you have to do it, or if your team is struggling to manage a backlog without a dedicated Scrum Master, it usually feels like more overhead than it’s worth.

During this lightning talk, I’ll share my experience as a Scrum Master of how the RHEL Core Services teams survived our first year of Scrum adoption while navigating the sudden rise of AI. I’ll talk about why finishing what you started matters way more than having perfect charts and why real collaboration is better than sitting through every meeting just because "the Scrum Master says so." I’ll also show you which AI tools we leverage to automate the boring administrative stuff, fix our estimations, and keep the backlog from becoming a graveyard.