Why some software developers hate Agile
As a developer who has been quite unhappy in Agile environments, I don't actually think Agile is to blame, which the article alludes to.<p>I think the issue with Agile is that software is a field in which is difficult to measure productivity easily. Then Agile comes along and offers the appearance of making it easy to score and and measure team and individual effectiveness. Sure it's "supposed" to be for the team to measure their own effectiveness and empower people to work more productively, but for folks in management roles, the opportunity to 'score' engineers based on Agile metrics is too attractive.<p>Once it becomes just a way to figure out who's not moving fast enough, or "failing to meet their commitments", of course people will hate it. It gets changed from a tool into a stick.