Saw a Reddit post in r/programmerhumor where someone said “they’re introducing Scrum at my wife’s work ... she’s a teacher.” Has anyone else heard of other instances of Agile lingo making its way to unexpected places?

When I build an eLearning startup, I implemented SCRUM to all areas. Specially those ones who were more created than logic, such as Graphic Design, Instructional Design and more.

From that acquired knowledge a former Operations Manager created his own construction company and he applied SCRUM to all workers, which brought many challenges and results as well.

That's weird. 

I have not heard of Agile being used in education, but it's not surprising. If the concepts of Scrum (organization, working towards a common goal) are proposed to be used in education, it's probably not a bad thing. Effective and efficient project management is useful in any industry. 

Nope.. but would be fun to hear them..

I quite regularly hear of people talking about their "daily standup" - which is often neither daily, nor a standup, and certainly not fast. It seems to be their name for their routine weekly team sit-down catch-up.

I definitely hear people talking about "sprints" all the time, in many industries, but yet they're not sprints. They're just .... doing work. And work which is not scoped, timeboxed, planned with a two week goal ... simply tasks that they move around, overflow, all sorts of things. Yet for some reason they talk about a fortnight as a "sprint" despite having no structure or goals or prioritisation or estimations or tracking around any of the tasks they are doing.