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Not sure if this is intended to expand on my comment or to be a rebuttal to it, but to be clear: I am in full agreement with you. My comment strictly refers to

Not sure if this is intended to expand on my comment or to be a rebuttal to it, but to be clear: I am in full agreement with you. My comment strictly refers to many of the articles[0] and comments[1] that push back on the modern incarnation of scrum/agile/whatever. Productivity theater in project management is net harmful to innovation and actual product development velocity, but my point is that we can't go to the other extreme and have no planning or any kind of measurement. [0] https://rethinkingsoftware.substack.com/p/why-scrum-is-stressing-you-out https://rethinkingsoftware.substack.com/p/why-scrum-is-stres... [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41545101 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41545101

pestaa 2y ago
In this case, an expansion. :) Agile was ruined because of this need to be predictable and adaptable to plans. And business folks often overlook that it is predictable and adaptable -- just not in the way project managers were educated in the old days (or even to this day, I don't know) expect.