"When you can say, "Let's tweak our process in this way for the next two sprints, and see if it works better than what we've been doing", that's agile." We did

"When you can say, "Let's tweak our process in this way for the next two sprints, and see if it works better than what we've been doing", that's agile." We did that in our company for about 3 years. Then some guy at the top decided (or maybe that's how he got misunderstood in the middle) what we are doing is not true agile, or whatever, and we are back at square one. So he basically decided to waste all the time we spent in retrospectives and all what we learned. It's like when people say that true Christianity is about forgiveness and other values, which sounds great, until you run into some fundamentalist with the holy book.