I think that the root cause for the complaints is that the Project Management Institute (PMI) has rolled out Agile as a new way to ask developers for status eve

I think that the root cause for the complaints is that the Project Management Institute (PMI) has rolled out Agile as a new way to ask developers for status every day, rather than as discovery tool. PMI comes by it honestly as their bread and butter was always handling tasks that have a well-known duration, such as organizing folding textiles to be loaded on a truck. Creation of new software isn't compatible with that approach, and I think the author calls the reason out clearly and succinctly: >The problem is that you and/or your team can only eliminate a fixed-ish number of bits of entropy per unit time, and at the outset you don’t know how many bits there are in the problem to eliminate.