There are even companies selling scrumfall consultancy known as SAFE. In my experience, there are few problems with agile. - scrumfall that is mostly cause by

There are even companies selling scrumfall consultancy known as SAFE. In my experience, there are few problems with agile. - scrumfall that is mostly cause by stakeholders wanting to have yearly roadmaps and KPI tied to delivery of increment. Plenty of organizations have separate engineering and product orgs that create this disconnect. - groomorgy when teams spend more time on analysis than actual work. Driven by middle managers thinking that doing less is better than not finishing the sprint in time. Middle managers that do not understand tech or business but can track progress of tasks. - cost-amnesia When feature is build over many increments is hard to estimate total cost and long term maintenance cost. You might have teams re-inventing a wheel and having a massive amount of slowly rotting code. - conway-architecture. Because people think that agile is all about small independent teams, it naturally leads to service oriented architecture. In many places, SOA is a bad fit problem or organization. Small company with limited resources doing micro-somethings will create death trap. - teflon-promotions You will have teams and projects doing terribly over a longer period of time, but in initially phase they delivered value. You will see people promoted in the organization based on early wins, even if they left behind dead bodies. It often encourages tech dept over long term maintenance. I still feel that agile is great. Most of these problems are people problems, not agile itself.