That sounds pretty awful, I can certainly relate to the sprint deadlines bit. In fact that sounds straight up dysfunctional. I've certainly worked in a few agi

That sounds pretty awful, I can certainly relate to the sprint deadlines bit. In fact that sounds straight up dysfunctional. I've certainly worked in a few agile (to varying degrees) that functioned far better than that. To me they've been the only places that we're halfway decent. They were outnumbered by places that either paid lip service to Agile (universally using SCRUM), or applied it in some backwards bizarre way. I think this is where that bad rep comes from. It's a shame, I've personally worked with an onsite customer that was a C level exec, and we cut out reams of red tape, got stuff done, and delighted them. Maybe the real vision of it is just to hard to achieve given political realities and the shitty nature of the modern corporation.