Purely my opinion, so feel free to agree/disagree. Most of the time, agile fails due to an unwillingness to be flexible. It's either stakeholders or managers w

Purely my opinion, so feel free to agree/disagree. Most of the time, agile fails due to an unwillingness to be flexible. It's either stakeholders or managers with rigid deadlines/demands, or teams that are incapable of adapting their processes to increase productivity. If you ever want to test your agile setup, ask yourself this: what happens when you finish a sprint and you have time remaining on a task? For me, this is the ultimate test of agility in an organisation, and it's usually where you see the first problem(s). A lot of people in tech like to complain that consulting firms have ruined agile, but I blame you/us. We've ruined agile because we refuse to be agile, and we ultimately accept a process where we rush into development without adequate planning, or the ability to change course during production. In all fairness, it's not just developers faults. It's also the fault of managers that implement this "agile" thing we've sold as a rigid process that needs to fit a set of concrete parameters.