[another35]

Agile is nothing more than a methodology that can help a dedicated team to have a little more structure and transparency in the development process. Any team can easily do a weekly 30 minutes meeting to update on progress and issues. Also, a product owner can chop up epics into manageable user stories that can be done within 1 or 2 weeks (call that a sprint). IMAO there is not much more to it.

The real problem is that whole subculture of 6 figure Agile managers, Scrum-masters etc.. that preach their little thing as if it were a religion that leads to maximum productivity and dollars. But in the end it is only about their dollars. Most of those people cannot code, cannot design, have no vision, no skills whatsoever to build a product as what the team is actually doing. They sell themselves way more important than they actually are. I don't need a DRY coach or manager who helps me avoiding to repeat certain parts of the code. It's a very simple concept, don't need any coach for that, same counts for Agile.

In the company where I currently work they have now fully adopted Agile. Result? We hired for over a million dollars a year on Agile managers, Scrum masters, coaches etc.. We do meetings all the time, very structured indeed! My productivity as a developer dropped over 50% (and not only mine). But I don't mention it to these awesome Agile managers, as soon as they know I'm not a proponent my days in the company are counted.

[pdimitar]

I sympathize with you. Time for another job, buddy. I am not saying this lightly, I fled three such companies and it hurt every time but always turned out to be the right decision in retrospect.