Agile in Their Own Words: The Problem with Agile and Scrum

I wrote this.

Let me say this about agile: the most important part of a software project is the first 20% of it, when all the foundations and building blocks for the application have to be created.

What I’ve seen happening at the dozen or so different scrum places I’ve worked at is that agile abrogates this first critical 20%, and more than anything this is what makes agile so destructive to software projects.