> Sometimes some developers feel that they should probably rewrite X or add Y and does so without consulting anyone first. To be fair, project managers often d

> Sometimes some developers feel that they should probably rewrite X or add Y and does so without consulting anyone first. To be fair, project managers often decide to keep using X or leave out Y without consulting anyone first. Also, to be fair, project managers are rarely organized or explicit about where the project is and where it should be with respect to cross pollination. If they tracked their goals there like they did other things, you'd see some developers taking this style of project under their wing. That being said, my experience largely matches yours. Though I find the success rate in setting up a closed feedback loop (actually demoing for the actual people that should be happy with the actually deployed feature) is much lower than people notice, so I'm not sure agile is as technically useful as it seems. It's politically useful, for sure. You can say "Working on the wrong thing? I gave Henderson eight demos as work progressed this fall!"