[0x445442]

I agree with you. This "Agile" cancer that has infected the industry needs to die now. Someone here called it collectivized micromanagement and that's the best term I have heard for what's become of "Agile".

[erikpukinskis]

I don’t think you should accept bastardizations of terms into your lexicon.

Yes, acknowledge when someone means “micromanaging” when they say “agile”, and act accordingly. But don’t redefine the word in your own head, otherwise how can you even speak?

Like, what word do you use now for the basic principle of agile development now that you’ve changed it to mean micromanagement in your head?

[97b683f8]

I'd say Agile development is about "agorisation" of the development process. "Agorisation" is the act of making a place (virtual or not) amenable to proposing, discussing, and setting up and in motion categories that will enhance this development process in both qualitative and quantitative aspects, such that agents who collaborate into it can live through this process like a citizen through the city.

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category (n.)

1580s, in Aristotle's logic, "a highest notion," from Middle French catégorie, from Late Latin categoria, from Greek kategoria "accusation, prediction, category," verbal noun from kategorein "to speak against; to accuse, assert, predicate," from kata "down to" (or perhaps "against;" see cata-) + agoreuein "to harangue, to declaim (in the assembly)," from agora "public assembly" (from PIE root *ger- "to gather").

[0x445442]

I don't view the term "collectivized micromanagement" as a bastardized term for what's going on at most places touting themselves as "Agile". In fact, I think it's a much more honest and accurate term for what's going on at those places.

Now, if you've been fortunate to work in places that more closely adhere to the original ideas and concepts that's great; count yourself fortunate.