It happens when people use the mod system to vote their position on a topic. I'm guilty of this, and I do think "agile", as a noun in quotation marks, has gone

It happens when people use the mod system to vote their position on a topic. I'm guilty of this, and I do think "agile", as a noun in quotation marks, has gone badly wrong. A lot of us have just gotten really burned. It's immensely fair of people who do stand behind agile methods to object to the mischaracterization of agile as a set of micromanagement techniques. But to a lot of us, that is now our experience with "agile." A daily "standup" where a team lead (who often doesn't write code) asks for a progress report and follows it up questions about whether this means we'll still meet our deadlines, followed perhaps by questions about what we can do to make sure we still meet them. You're welcome to say that this isn't what agile intended, that it is a corruption. I'd agree, completely. The real disagreement here will be whether "agile" methods are inherently unstable enough to invite this sort of corruption. The notion of daily standup is just so tempting for people who wish to micromanage, deny developers autonomy that can't be measured in daily increments, and apply deadline pressures. In many ways, they may be scratching their heads that the developers themselves proposed this arrangement, but ok, sure! I just finished watching a game of thrones episode, evidently the plan here is to invite an outside army in, order your own army to stand down, have the outside army to put down a rebellion, ask them to leave, then reassume power? What could possibly go wrong?