Dear Agile, I'm Tired of Pretending - Columbus' Egg - Medium
"Agile is dead." People keep saying that. But then they say, "We're just kidding." They tell you they meant the way you do Agile is dead. And stupid. But "real" Agile isn't dead. It's just that everyone does Agile wrong. So I guess real Agile is, you know, Agile in theory. Even I have done this. And you know what? I'm sick of doing it.
I was recently mustering the same old defenses online: "But but but, the problem is Waterscrumfall, not Agile as intended in the Manifesto…blah blah blah." Then Bob Marshall gave it to me straight. He basically said, "Shut up Charles. The Agile Manifesto is a crock." He made some points I had to agree with. I thought about it. The result is this post.
Here's a quiz for you. How does the first line of the Agile Manifesto begin? No peeking. Don't know? That's fine. It doesn't matter. It says, "We are uncovering better ways of developing software…." Stop. Notice it says, "developing software." It does not say, "leaning out your org," "paying down transformation debt," "cutting it out with this command-and-control crap," "focusing on outcomes and getting better at discovery work," "fixing your medieval budgeting system," or any of the other far more value-adding things people have tried to glom onto it. But the thing is, when people say that Agile pertains to the whole org, it's revisionist history. It's dishonest.
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