I'm pretty "agile" is mostly dead if not all dead--at least for marketing purposes. I do believe that its dozen principles (the meat of the values) remain valid, and many people would still buy into them if packaged appropriately.
I'm not going to begin to go into how damaging Scrum was in the evolution of all this. I won't forget being told by a "thought leader" to just get behind Scrum, because that was how we were going to win. (Well, it's how "they" won by making a small fortune off an MLM.)
I've stopped talking about it explicitly (for the most part) for many years, and instead have been just showing teams by example how to incrementally tackle and deliver software with high quality.
Nice article, thanks Dave!
I'm pretty "agile" is mostly dead if not all dead--at least for marketing purposes. I do believe that its dozen principles (the meat of the values) remain valid, and many people would still buy into them if packaged appropriately.
I'm not going to begin to go into how damaging Scrum was in the evolution of all this. I won't forget being told by a "thought leader" to just get behind Scrum, because that was how we were going to win. (Well, it's how "they" won by making a small fortune off an MLM.)
I've stopped talking about it explicitly (for the most part) for many years, and instead have been just showing teams by example how to incrementally tackle and deliver software with high quality.
Your experience sounds very similar to mine! The key difference is that I haven't stopped talking about, for better or worse. 😀
And a big, red ❤️ to "showing teams by example how to incrementally tackle and deliver software with high quality"!