You’re describing what agile should be, but Agile™ is the variant you get in toxic companies where they say they are agile, but it’s just a mechanism to micromanage developers with bad managers asking why you’re not burning down enough points or why you haven’t met the estimated date you thought before you realized there was more technical debt than a bankrupt business.
Maybe you’ve avoided it but I’ve seen it first hand.
You’re describing what agile should be, but Agile™ is the variant you get in toxic companies where they say they are agile, but it’s just a mechanism to micromanage developers with bad managers asking why you’re not burning down enough points or why you haven’t met the estimated date you thought before you realized there was more technical debt than a bankrupt business.
Maybe you’ve avoided it but I’ve seen it first hand.
As I said, that’s nothing new and not particular to Agile.
There are mangers who think LEAN means they can lay everyone off.
Businesspeak has always been used to bamboozle frontline employees and abuse them. Stealing terminology for that from project management isn’t new.