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"I Hate Agile!" | Allen Holub On Why He Thinks Agile And Scrum Are Broken

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Allen Holub shares his strong opinions on why modern Agile and Scrum adoptions cause problems within software engineering teams.

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What people say. Cited as a critique of how modern management frameworks like Scrum have distorted the original goals of Agile.

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As I understand it, Scrum should have been developed to simplify the lives of developers. No, that's what agile software development was created for. Scrum was created to ensure that management retains roughly the same level of control it had before agile software development existed, and that it can continue to work pretty much as before without having to adapt too much, and still be able to sell the idea of "we're agile now" to developers without having to become truly agile itself. Agile development itself does not require most of the things that Scrum introduces. And I don't see how anything that Scrum introduces really makes life easier for developers compared to agile development w…