Kent Beck on Agilevs Waterfall

This is from a talk Dave Farley (co-author of Continuous Delivery) and Kent Beck had which was published yesterday.

They discuss how the ideas of XP and Agile have been diluted and how a good number of organisations now follow a waterfall approach with a different name (I happen to work for one of those orgs unfortunately).

If anyone is interested in this topic, Anthony Marcano (creator of the Screenplay Pattern) published a video on the same topic a few months ago with some examples of how Agile has been diluted: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzqEHwXVpKQ .

Maybe I'm a bit of a Romantic, but I believe that given 2 orgs on equalt terms, on doing XP or Kanban and another one doing SaFE or whatever, the one doing XP/Kanban will be a far better place to work. And from experience I'll say that an XP/Kanban org will be able to deliver, get feedback and learn faster.