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The death of Agile - Allen Holub

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Allen Holub argues that modern corporate implementations of Agile have strayed from its original principles and ruined its effectiveness.

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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…
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