Ask HN: Is it time to retire Agile?
That&#x27;s mostly about Scrum, and Scrum is not the entirety of Agile. Scrum in practice is often also decidedly <i>not</i> Agile if you go back to the manifesto, though that&#x27;s not an issue with Scrum proper but an issue with Scrum as implemented. Scrum as implemented is often too ceremony focused (so values the processes over individuals and interactions) and inflexible in the face of certain kinds of change (valuing following a plan over responding to change). Again, not strictly a problem with Scrum, but just how nearly every good process (or at least decent process) gets corrupted when it becomes institutionalized.<p>You can see the same issues facing Lean and Theory of Constraints (both predating the Agile Manifesto, but sharing many of its characteristics or objectives).