I had a large project for a new client a while ago; they had 50 devs and I was managing work of 20. They kept saying I did not understand what agile is; this wa

I had a large project for a new client a while ago; they had 50 devs and I was managing work of 20. They kept saying I did not understand what agile is; this way they have no control! They said. So they started more and more micromanaging this already waterfall project which they didn’t understand; daily ‘standups’ that took a lot of time and which were used to embarrass individuals who missed their estimates they put yesterday, pull tasks apart into minute subtasks and estimate them and hand out fines for people who missed their targets. Needless to say everyone was really stressed, they hated these ‘managers’ who were supposed to be on equal footing with me but were not. No one was project managing anything; the dude meant to be the PM went in such detail about useless product things that he didn’t have time to manage anything. All along this was hailed as a perfect agile project. Of course the project was fixed price, fixed deadline and fixed feature set (but no one told me that; I was hired as a freelance tech lead to make sure things were implemented properly as I worked in that field for ages). Needless to say things didn’t go as planned and I was let go for not being a team player. The project is still not live years later and all people we worked with were fired and replaced several times as well except the ‘managers’.