less agile?

It's a stripped down version of Scrum what we are doing. I mean, not that we wanted to change anything, but we had to adapt.

Cause we did not have a tester from the beginning of the project. So we tested more.

Cause we don't have stand-up meetings. But our desks are practically touching each other, so everyone knows what the others are working at, all the time. I know, you can't afford this luxury, but we are just a team of three. Blockages ... send an email and wait, be inventive, find something else to work at.

Cause we don't have a one-sprint long backlog. But we are continuously eliciting requirements from the over-the-ocean project manager, team leader and GUI specialist. They know what features the clients want. That's where the final say on GUI usability and consistency is ... still we are continuously pushing to have a sprint backlog.

I'll tell you what's better than a traditional stand-up meeting. It's our weekly sync where we started  yesterday to use a virtual room to demo our progress. That's my favorite side of Scrum, the demos. Those at the end of the sprint. But now we are doing them weekly, I think this keeps the momentum.

I know, it might not be Scrum, but we are agile, in our own special way.