There's nothing wrong with Agile, except the fact that most organisations that believe themselves to be working in an agile fashion, aren't. But because they all use the same terminology to describe their different approaches, they each mistakenly think they're doing the same thing.
Top tip: if your organisation has a regular meeting that you call a "Scrum" that consists of a lot of developers looking frustrated and one hands-off manager smugly asking questions that everybody else perceives as profoundly irrelevant, and if that meeting is held at the same time each day/week/fortnight regardless of whether the people actually doing the work are tackling tasks that should take five minutes or six weeks, then you're not being Agile you're being Delusional.
Like most good ideas, Agile has ample scope for being badly executed. Any idiot can adopt an Agile approach, many do.
Top tip: if your organisation has a regular meeting that you call a "Scrum" that consists of a lot of developers looking frustrated and one hands-off manager smugly asking questions that everybody else perceives as profoundly irrelevant, and if that meeting is held at the same time each day/week/fortnight regardless of whether the people actually doing the work are tackling tasks that should take five minutes or six weeks, then you're not being Agile you're being Delusional.
Like most good ideas, Agile has ample scope for being badly executed. Any idiot can adopt an Agile approach, many do.
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