Your first sentence sums it up nicely. Speaking as someone whose family has been kept fed by the "agile" gravy train, let me say first that I think all that stu

Your first sentence sums it up nicely. Speaking as someone whose family has been kept fed by the "agile" gravy train, let me say first that I think all that stuff is valuable. However, many of the industry gurus make these broad, sweeping generalizations based on their own experiences, and most of their experiences come from consulting work for huge, broken corporations. Applying these lessons to startups, or to small, fast companies in general, is just nonsense.