Every time Jonathan does a post like this, it reminds me of why I started blogging. Some day I hope to write so well and with so much insight.
A wonderful post on Good Agile, Bad Agile:
Long, but very worth it. There is a lot in there.
If a process is potentially good, but 90+% of the time smart and well-intentioned people screw it up, then it's a bad process. So they can only say it's the team's fault so many times before it's not really the team's fault.
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So if I were you, I'd take Agile off your resume. I'd quietly close the SCRUM and XP books and lock them away. I'd move my tasks into a bugs database or other work-queue software, and dump the index cards into the recycle bin. I'd work as fast as I can to eliminate Agile from my organization.
And then I'd focus on being agile.
Long, but very worth it. There is a lot in there.