The ages old "you are doing Agile wrong".
When nobody manages to do the thing right, then the thing isn't good. It doesn't matter what platonic ideal you hold for it.
When nobody manages to do the thing right, then the thing isn't good. It doesn't matter what platonic ideal you hold for it.
And the reason they are telling you that: because an agile process that is working well is like night and day to all the crazy processes that preceded it. When it works, it is amazing!
Put another way, if you enter the olympics for breakdancing, and then just move your body around in a floppy way, you will not win the gold medal.