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> I suspect that has become more of the norm as I've withdrawn into my own little corner of the universe.

I often wonder what happened to the early grass roots agile community. I know I’ve withdrawn into my world too, I wonder how common that is?

I often feel like we’ve taken steps backward from where we used to be. Not sure how much of that is just my latent curmudgeon though.

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People who genuinely want their teams/organizations to improve didn't disappear.

However, the labels under which they operated were taken over by the certification business. So, "grassroots" people either don't care about the labels at all or they invented their own.

By now, Agile is an empty buzzword. Unless someone explains what they mean by that, it means nothing.

Same with Kanban, by the way.

I ejected from the craziness and slipped into a quiet little, inexpensive corner to work on things that trigger obsession.

So far, it's gone pretty great, we'll see how long it holds!

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