The thing I see every time someone decries the death of agile is that they fail to mention or probably aren't doing retrospectives after every sprint. Good retr

The thing I see every time someone decries the death of agile is that they fail to mention or probably aren't doing retrospectives after every sprint. Good retrospectives aren't complicated and don't take that much time, but they are arguably the most important part of a successful agile team. Most of the best ideas in agile come from lean manufacturing concepts and arguably the most important part of lean manufacturing is continuous improvement. Continuous improvement in software process comes from retrospectives. When teams fail to do retrospectives, they fail to learn from their mistakes and discuss ways to improve. I don't care what your process is, if you do retrospectives consistently and commit to take action after each retrospective, you can make any process more awesome. Teams that don't improve their process end up with a crappy process that nobody likes. This is not an agile specific problem.