I wonder if this is the result with tech's obsession with certificates. There was a time circa 2009-2014 when everyone and their mum were Scrum masters.

And a lot of those comments sound like whoever is handling project management uses Agile as a dogma rather than a toolbox to be modified as needed.

I don't think I've ever come across a project that uses "pure" agile. It'd be pretty insane. Right now I use a mixed approach that uses: * Requirements * User stories * Use cases(IBM style) * Planning Poker * UML * Sprints(Both 1 week and 4 week sprints) * Burn-Down charts And a bunch other I'm probably forgetting.

It also sounds like their project managers aren't actually managing them, but rather delegating the management to their developers.

I used to have a producer that said that every second an engineer wasted faffing about in JIRA was a second not spent solving an issue, so he tried to automate reporting as much as possible and wanted us to only raise an alarm if something didn't go as planned.

I quite liked this approach and I'm planning on using a modified version for a future project, so I guess I'll soon find out if it works :D