>I have never once seen or heard of any Agile process anywhere actually working with any degree of success. I worked on two internal tools at Etsy that used th

>I have never once seen or heard of any Agile process anywhere actually working with any degree of success. I worked on two internal tools at Etsy that used the most agile of agile processes (no product manager or project manager, no estimation, no timelines and burndown charts, just the people who used the tools and the people writing the tools, a big physical board with cards on it representing the work that needs to get done in priority ordering, and daily standups with the manager of the engineering team. The whole team would have retros every two weeks that were kind of social, kind of project management, kind of technical. They were the two most wildly successful projects I've ever worked on and the tools were well loved and last I checked a couple years ago, at least one was still being used about 4 years on. They solved the users' problems extremely well.