Ive mainly work at startups and as a consultant/sub-contractor and have encountered many implementations of agile and waterfall. One place I consult for, and th

Ive mainly work at startups and as a consultant/sub-contractor and have encountered many implementations of agile and waterfall. One place I consult for, and this is not a defense of agile just an observation of some good in what this shop is trying to do, well this place handles sprints as "multi-week" (defined by the team up front, weighing factors like; are we blocked by client, complexity, etc). The projects are still more or less waterfall with a client deadline at the end (They are mostly fixed scope/budget after all), and the only sprint deadlines are periodic client demos that have no expectations (progress check ins, see what we did, yay). The teams here only seem stressed in the old sense, right before the end. They often joke and call it agilefall, with the agile part intended to force teams to share progress and collect progressive feedback. As well as hold other internal meetings like sprint plannings (really just team checkins, are we blocked? should we start this vs that, have we learned something, etc) and retros (also just checkins, how we feeling? are people butting heads, etc). My biggest gripe with them is that no one takes responsibility for any form of ticket management and it can be chaotic knowing who is actually doing what day to day, requiring too many stand-ups and slack messages. They try to map tickets to scope up front but no one moves them along and they usually just follow the estimate document... since all the subs are global and remote it would be awesome to just check a board each day and dive into work instead of everyone needing and hour at the ass crack of dawn, during dinner, or at bed time, their local time... Again, not saying this is my recommendation, but its definitely not some feature-mill, even tho we are literally a feature-mill as a fixed scope/fixes budget consulting shop, lol... not the most interesting work, but pays well, low stress, and if I heads down and get it done, I get tons of free time to do my own thing.