The more and more I work in Agile the more I realize that the way many companies use it it is just an excuse to do micromanagement and attempt to treat everyone as an interchangeable resource/cog. Now this doesn't mean agile is bad, it just means for whatever reason management in many of my experiences has twisted it into a tool that seemingly leads to the following:

- Change direction every sprint to the point where an application has been morphed so many times into something new that it makes it a heroic task to actually engineer something that ends up performant without needing a complete rewrite - Takes the pressure of the business/management folks to project, plan or foresee anything because they believe they can change direction at any point in time - Cut down projects into such fine grained tasks that it takes the fun out of the work

Im sure in those cases agile was done wrong for whatever reason or another but consequently as a result of my experiences I've stopped putting up with it when I can. I'm definitely ignorant about project management but Ive found within a small team just talking and coordinating like normal human beings about how your going to work together and what your going to do works pretty well. I guess I'd call my approach the "no project manager" technique.