But, ironically, you are being 'Agile' in this new role. I mean the term is sooo elastic it is hardly meaningful, but if you have a high skilled team, with cle

But, ironically, you are being 'Agile' in this new role. I mean the term is sooo elastic it is hardly meaningful, but if you have a high skilled team, with clear shared concrete goals, producing code at pace, where the code is the measure of progress then that meets pretty much all the things that got written down in the Manifesto. The fact that the manifest is just an observation of what we all know - how it feels to do really good work in a team, well, great. The problem with Agile / work / life is that its hard to get all those pieces together and just as hard to maintain. I think Programmer Anarchy is closest to the right idea. Get a bunch of (skilled) programmers together and give them a direction. But it is called anarchy to emphasise the idea you cannot have non-programmers in charge, or an organisational hierarchy getting in the way. Changing that is what derails almost all Agile projects - its why Acqui-hires fail to keep the esprit d'corps, its why startups slowdown as they grow, its why steam engines were great before the factories, its ... humans aren't good at letting emergent order handle their day to day lives. tl;dr - its not Agile or Scrum. Its us - its the difficulty of organising humans, its the constant fight against entropy, its scale and centralised planning vs letting the market decide. We should all probably live and work under the Dunbar number, and allow markets to find where value is created. I see ledgers as enabling that. The supply chain will set us free.