They always were. Worse even, 'agile' gets used as an excuse for project managers and architects not to document requirements or plan properly, even in situati

They always were. Worse even, 'agile' gets used as an excuse for project managers and architects not to document requirements or plan properly, even in situations where all the goals can be known ahead of time, because that's a lot of work. It's also rife with "It's not working? Clearly what we need is more interference, more monitoring by management, hire more 'agile coaches' to inflict more 'ceremonies' on developers and use even more of their time." Never mind that planning is always thrown out of the window because priorities shift. Never mind that none of the changes that were identified as necessary in the retro get any sort of management buy-in, rendering it pointless. Never mind that 'stand-up' has become a management-run progress-report session. Never mind that this kills the feedback loop and developer-lead benefits that are supposed to come from this. No! Do more agile! Whatever the hell that means! Do it harder!