The age of cargo cult Agile must end
The root problem in my estimation is that people want a boilerplate bureaucratic process which they can follow and achieve good enough™ results.<p>A lot of the activities done in agile or scrum or whatever processes are potentially useful tools in specific situations.  But people don&#x27;t want to understand the history and reasoning behind the tools nor do they want to apply them judiciously as appropriate.<p>They <i>want</i> a one size fits all process that produces results, if not optimally, at least consistently.  And whatever Agile flavor of the month is popular is just that, it&#x27;s good enough.  And the benefit is that you get this fun mind trick to deflect blame (&quot;I don&#x27;t know what happened we followed the process.  People don&#x27;t fail processes do.&quot;) or (&quot;I&#x27;ll tell you what went wrong we didn&#x27;t follow the xzy process.  If we had just agiled a little harder this project would have shipped on time&quot;).