It should be bringing you closer to the work. The only “agile” (adjective) way of working I have seen work is where people whole-heartedly believe in the princi

It should be bringing you closer to the work. The only “agile” (adjective) way of working I have seen work is where people whole-heartedly believe in the principles listed here: https://agilemanifesto.org/principles.html https://agilemanifesto.org/principles.html If people actually believe that, you should be MORE aware of customer needs, what the market your company exists within is doing, and why things have to be done. It’s not great if you don’t want to have to worry about outside factors like that, but then you need to expect the many extra managerial and planning layers that will worry about those factors for you.