@Hank G ☑️

I always get a bit sad when I see people complain about Agile or Scrum being the worst thing ever. I do understand it, because they've been done wrong so often, and the names have been applied to so much crap, that I get that people get a bad taste in their mouth from it.

But quite often they do prefer working by Agile principles, because they're natural principles. It's not like they're working according to a strict protocol with all the requirements spec'ed up in extreme detail up front; to the contrary, they're often working more agile than the companies shouting how Agile they are.

The problem isn't Agile. It's not even Scrum. The problem is that these words were launched to promote a more flexible and humane way of working in large companies, exactly by taking advantage of large companies' tendency to latch onto trends and buzzwords. And they latched onto these. But despite them latching onto these words, most large companies still have a culture that's adverse to an agile way of working. But now they paste these words over it to show how good they are.

But that doesn't make Agile bad. It might make it meaningless. It mostly makes the companies liars, but they already were that anyway. It's how they operate. And that is the real problem.