> The point of my anecdote was to illustrate how Agile makes it easier to lie, and makes it difficult for honest people to call out liars. If a manager tells me that the deadline is Wednesday, and the deadline passes without anything bad happening, then he or she looks bad. If a manger estimates a "3", and I estimate a "3", and then it turns out that our definitions of what a "3" is differ, then I look bad.

If your manager says they're following agile/scrum and says you took too long on that "3", they're lying and you should call them out; you don't look bad, they do.

> I'd much rather that people be honest and up-front about the deadline (even if it is BS) than try to hide behind some overly complicated poker-game kabuki.

If you've got a real deadline then be honest about it. But most everyday tasks don't need a deadline; agile isn't about pretending the deadline isn't a deadline, it's about actually not having a deadline.