Agile is not a Fucking Noun

But my project managers and CEO have told me that by adapting this Agile methodology, we will get bigger things out of the door in less time. Heck, it even allows us to throw 20 people at a project and do it 10 times faster than the current 2 people working on it (who just keep complaining about not knowing what it's meant to do, and that it keeps changing - pffft).

(I liked the article - it just reminds me why I need to change - jobs)

"Agile" et al are sticks that those who cannot do things (managers) beat the people who can do things to make them do it the way that the managers want. Which of course is often the wrong way because the managers do not have the ability to do those things and so don't know their ... - Rob with 39 years experience of totally ignoring interfering managers attempts to manage him. Stand up for your intelligence!

This reminds me of the first value point in the Agile Manifesto:

> Individuals and interactions over processes and tools

Why is Agile being prescribed as a specific process with a set of tools when this is exactly what agile software development is not about?

And management? How do they get all the nice graphs and data they like?

Scrum makes it possible to give them an almost daily data input on how the project is going. That is the real benefit.