I've worked at four companies that have claimed to do agile development. Not one of them has deeply embraced the principles of doing so. Generally they have add

I've worked at four companies that have claimed to do agile development. Not one of them has deeply embraced the principles of doing so. Generally they have added a few easy practices, like stand-up meetings and sprints. They've kept large-scale chunks assigned to specific developers, defining both the work to be done and the time to do it, and substantial design docs. Unit testing tends to be spotty. We're not living in Agile World. We're living in Fake Agile World. I have some reservations about true-blue agile, but I'd be willing to give it a shot. Let's do Fundamentalist Scrum once. I'd be up for it. At least I'd know whether it works or not.