[RamblingCTO]

> Now some software companies don’t even have a QA organization, we are inventing new organizational and technical structures to ensure that the developers are perpetually on call to resolve issues, and there is definitely a school of thought that says delivery of a complete product is an anti-pattern because after all every feature is just an experiment that you are testing on your users.

That's bad management again imho, not tied to agile. I hope you're not working like that! We are a small startup and have a ratio of 2 QA per 7 developers. And QA is kind of outside the scrum process (with more QA resources I could have some integrated and working on new features directly, that would be nice, but you know, money and stuff). We actually run automated end-to-end tests via selenium via CI on every new docker image release on a production-like environment. Plus manual QA.

My point wasn't that "agile" wasn't done right, but that management is shit and it wouldn't even make a difference if you used waterfall or agile in this situation.

Also, > to ensure that the developers are perpetually on call to resolve issues

That's a good way to get rid of your developers lol.

You're points about "always on" business are interesting, but I don't experience it like that. Maybe depends on the country/sector?