I think what makes or breaks a team is not so much "is it agile or is it waterfall", but more cultural and difficult to quantify. My fairly small team of ~20 tr

I think what makes or breaks a team is not so much "is it agile or is it waterfall", but more cultural and difficult to quantify. My fairly small team of ~20 tried all kinds of kanban, sprint, standup, scrum or whatever and have converged on something amusingly waterfall-like where we design stuff upfront then just bang it out. We have open communication, so if we hit unexpected snags, you can just talk to product or bizdev or dev and sort it out. If product is getting anxious about progress, they just ask and the devs give an estimate (or even a demo). I guess business is kinda like a marriage where just talking about things openly solves quite a lot of problems.