[jim_and_derrick]

I've had some good 'agile' experiences and some bad. We havent always done agile "to a T", we usually shape and mold it to work for us. However some companies it is very apparent how shit this thing is. We do our company wide sprint review thing with each squad (yeah we copied spotify squad thing). When a PM gets up and says "our squad complete 12/12 points" everyone goes fricking nuts like it's the best thing ever. What did the squad accomplish? They added some images on a page in our app...

I guess overall what i've learned, and this probably applies to a lot of things in life not just software. "Important" (C level, managers etc) act just like my 8 month old daughter. They see things that are new and shiny and they want it, badly. Tech companies see that other tech companies do AGILE, JIRA, all this shit. Those manager types then decide we need to do this ourselves. So you are forced to implement some managerial system that nobody understands. It's all crap i tell ya.