[specialist]

The Correct Answer is chart the critical path, balance the triangle, mitigate risks. Everything else is details. aka PMI.

Our industry really jumped the shark with the Agile and XP nonsense. I flip the bozobit for anyone who uses "kanban", "sprint", liar's poker err planning poker, and other Dilbertspeak non-ironically.

20+ years later, best I can tell, the anti-methodology methodology Agile cargo cult band wagon was for people who couldn't be bothered to sit thru a PMI seminar. The unholy synthesis of pop-biz fashionistas and corporate climbers bouldering along the bullshit jobs facades. Artistes, pointy-haired bosses, "consultants", post dotcom era geek wannabes, and other assorted hangerons and poseurs.

I've always struggled to articulate the core problem. Agile is for those proudly belligerent ignorant people who reject expertise, wisdom, or anything else that would expose their grift.

A cult, more or less.

Buy me a beer sometime and I'll tell y'all how I really feel.