[ipnon]

This is why Agile has a love hate relationship with the engineering public. For some engineers its a hindrance to dedicated work. For other engineers, they have the realism to see that many programmers need direction and direct feedback to be profitable for their companies.

[watwut]

The thing is, some people needed direction should not imply everyone get punished and loose any semblance of autonomy. Which is literally agile approach. Some people are issue, therefore everyone is subject to elaborate system of autonomy and individuality removal.

Plus minus subtle intra team politics that allows you to circumvent the above.