Management structure

In my team, the director of product acts as the sprint master, drives bug scrub, task roadmap meetings. We have 2 week sprints, daily stand ups, retros, jira tickets with estimates, and weekly reports on top of it. All efforts have to have a ticket and need a budget area. The director of engineering reviews burn down charts every sprint and compares the trajectory of points burnt every sprint. We also get technical initiatives (ex improve code quality or testing) from the directors boss (supposedly) who does not have any prior experience in our coding language or domain. Management allows only one person from team to attend a conference. Hard to get approval for reimbursements.