Micromanagement is indeed what it looked like to me with all the daily stand ups (what did you do yesterday), review meetings (what did you do last week ?), scoring (what do you mean it would take you longer than that other developer to finish something ?) and sprints (we HAVE to do this THIS WEEK).
That's certainly what it can be used for and probably is on a large scale.
The most important one that a lot seem to miss is the "did you face any road blocks?", with a culture where the whole team thinks and removes the roadblock such that it is removed for everybody for good.
Morphine is a pretty damn good painkiller. Unfortunately, it is extremely easy to abuse to the point where there are more people abuse it than people who genuinely benefit from it.
On a larger scale, communism as it was originally conceived sounds like a utopia. Unfortunately, the only thing that's actually happened is an abuse that takes anything from democracy to authoritarian regimes well towards totalitarianism, the anti-thesis of communism.
Scrum and agile is the same in that respect. Sounds great. Works well on paper but very rarely used correctly or with the original intention.
