[jdlyga]

The one I see the most is "cargo cult Agile", where teams adopt practices like sprints and story points without truly understanding the values behind Agile. This often happens when people mimic what they’ve seen on other projects without fully grasping the concepts, leading to a cycle of misinterpretation. Frameworks like SAFe and even Scrum can exacerbate this by encouraging a focus on rituals over figuring things out, working together, and getting things done. As a result, organizations become bogged down by bureaucracy, excessive planning, and topdown control, all while claiming to be * Agile *. True Agile emphasizes flexibility, collaboration, and continuous improvement, not just following rituals.

[pllbnk]

Spot on. I guess the reason is that many people working in industry are lazy and it's easy to follow some pattern mindlessly never questioning whether it works for them. That's ironic because engineering folks are supposed to be intellectuals of the modern world but that's far from truth.