I see the comments are trending negatively, so I wanted to share a different perspective. Having worked on and along side companies doing "agile transformation

I see the comments are trending negatively, so I wanted to share a different perspective. Having worked on and along side companies doing "agile transformations" and every version under the sun of the doing-agile-but-still-not-performing process, I do think the article is valuable. My biggest takeaway is a good framing for how I can describe the situation where teams skip the basics in order to jump to the practices that seem most exciting. Having a DevOps group spin up a scalable build pipeline using the latest and great container cluster will not fix a team that has glossed over the basics of the "Focusing" team. You'll have individuals that haven't bought into team success or delivering business value who want to do advanced practices because they read a blog about how it worked at Etsy or GitHub or Netflix. When the team still cannot deliver or work together effectively, no one will look at the root cause but instead layer on more flavor of the month processes, burn the bridge with anyone non-technical in the organization, or lose people because the company is just "dysfunctional".