[noarchy]

Sounds like you haven't been crippled by Agile for these past five years. Meaning, no middleman (perhaps one with some sort of Agile "certification") has been gumming up the works.

This article read like it was written by a disconnected, manager-type. Not that I don't value the efforts of a skilled project manager, but that's a different matter entirely. Too often the process becomes more important than the outcome. I know the Agile evangelists will say that such managers are doing it wrong, but in that case I'm not sure I've ever seen it done right.

[jrochkind1]

The ironic thing, of course, is that the original goal of 'agile', by the people who invented it, was precisely to avoid middleman gumming up the works. Precisely.

We are all (including many of the people who popularized the term) aware that it hasn't always worked out that way. But that's still the goal.

[dreamfactory2]

fwiw I've seen kanban work extremely well but never scrum