And Moxie is complaining about something that goes against the early tenets of agile as listed in the manifesto. He’s complaining that hierarchical silod black

And Moxie is complaining about something that goes against the early tenets of agile as listed in the manifesto. He’s complaining that hierarchical silod black box teams are bad. Early agile was advocating that was bad! The bigger issue is that Agile doesn’t mean anything anymore because when it came about it was just a reaction to the previous form of software management. It was at most a few completely different methodologies agreeing on some high level principles. You had to pick one of those methodologies to get any real practices out of it. And many of those practices would today seem like no brainers. Of course we should be merging everyone’s software frequently (do quarterly merges exist anywhere anymore? They did). Developers writing automated tests is near universal now, it was rare then. And with the rise is SaaS we’ve taken frequent deployment to a level unthinkable when Agile was developed. When people complain about “Agile” now it’s meaningless. It’s a catch all for everything unpleasant in software planning and coordination, just like waterfall was when Agile was ascendant.