Most of my complaints about agile have centered around estimates. I'm of the opinion that anyone claiming to give accurate estimates for software development is

Most of my complaints about agile have centered around estimates. I'm of the opinion that anyone claiming to give accurate estimates for software development is a liar. But I would like to see an organization that only had the team lead give estimations. This would remove the temptation on individual team members to size too large and fill the time, while also keeping management happy that they're receiving estimates for tasks they requested. Measuring throughput would immediately become a lot more natural since team members wouldn't fall into the trap of "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure." I was actually just rejected from a job I applied to since I voiced a few small concerns with agile/scrum in the interview. My friend that joined that company recently reported he was doing maybe 10% of the work he and I were doing before he left my team. Even though I aced the technical portion they didn't want to risk hiring me since I asked their willingness to flex the rules of scrum.