Like most people, I've had mixed experiences with agile. I like short regular meetings where I hear what people are doing - but not for process reasons - it's j

Like most people, I've had mixed experiences with agile. I like short regular meetings where I hear what people are doing - but not for process reasons - it's just nice to hear. The places I've worked fit comfortably into one of two categories. In smaller shops, developers circumvent the process (whatever it is) when it makes sense. Things are messy, but it's not so bad. Hard to say how much process helps there. In larger shops, the process has won and people just work around it. Developers still try to get around the bad parts, but The Process is stronger than any individual. Work seems to get done less, but everyone understands why the work didn't happen. Generally, I get to go home earlier in these kinds of environments. All that said, a co-worker recently said they were excited to get more into agile and linked a product that uses this chart to advertise their agile tracking software: http://i.imgur.com/uYZwtFY.png http://i.imgur.com/uYZwtFY.png . I cannot for the life of me figure out how we got from "people over process" to that monstrosity.