Microservices actually allow teams to work independently of each other (once there are agreed on interface contracts) and more importantly, decouple schedule -

Microservices actually allow teams to work independently of each other (once there are agreed on interface contracts) and more importantly, decouple schedule - I don't have to wait or switch to something else if you're 3 days late delivering your component; it is usually easy to mock the inputs and outputs and build test harnesses and do lots of things that are more difficult with monoliths. HOWEVER, I don't understand why people get religious about methodologies. Every time a new fad comes out, I don't look at it as the "One True Way", I just evaluate its strengths and weaknesses and add it to my toolbox. I also am not religious about following all the precepts of the new religion. I'll mix agile and waterfall if I want. I will conduct my daily status meetings how I want and call them scrum, even if it's just to piss off zealots. I will sit down during standup. I'll mix microservices and monoliths. I will figure out the value I want from a methodology and be happy when I get that; I don't believe in utopia anymore.