It's ironic to me that even this "Lite" version of Agile (Scrum really) clearly puts process over people and conversations. I think it's great to have a startin

It's ironic to me that even this "Lite" version of Agile (Scrum really) clearly puts process over people and conversations. I think it's great to have a starting point of a known process and tools, but we should have much more focus on adjusting to the concrete problem, the people and larger organization. It's ridiculous to me that this proposal is set to reduce burnout, yet we still seem to commit on what gets done and by whom by the end of a time period that has the asinine title "sprint". What we are doing inherently deals with new and unknown, we usually aren't building, cookie cutter, prefab homes. What we are doing is certainly not a sprint, it's not even a marathon. Nomenclature like that creates a culture of heroes and cowboy codes who will burn themselves out. Hard rules like "can't change or add to the backlog" don't serve anybody. Nobody wins of the ship keeps moving in the wrong direction or stops. Let's just have a conversation! People should work together as a team and communication is paramount to a successful team. Let's not process our way around that and solve that problem!