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From the enterprise perspective, the purpose of Agile was to fail while giving the appearance of the greatest and most conscientious possible effort. "If it can't be done this way, it can't be done at all": time to gift more tens of millions of dollars to IBM and Oracle and Microsoft.

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Not all that counts can be counted. Not all that can be counted counts.

I hate Agile and I'm not going to try and sugar coat that. "We're drowning under the weight of clueless product leads, managers, and owners who've never written a line of code" That's why this still exists though not performant, because it some peoples entire entire careers now.

We don't care about productivity. We care about controlling labor. The more control you have over your labor the more you feel like you're doing things. Zero trust. Zero verification. That's just how it works.

Agile is dead long live (fr)agile.

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