It's no wonder the Agile bubble popped. The Agile practitioners shat the bed.
Agile in theory:
Empowered Teams
Adaptation
Flow
Responding to change over following a plan
Empiricism
These are abstract concepts, that are difficult to translate to the real world unless you understand them well. So what do many Agile practitioners do instead?
They do what's easy to do and easy to understand.
They mindlessly copy-paste practices across wildly different organizations. That's way easier that trying to translate abstract concepts to the specific situation you're finding yourself in. Plus you've got some fancy buzzwords you can drop to make their gullible eyes widen.
Agile in practice:
Normalizing Story Points
Increasing Velocity
Big Room Planning
Release Trains
Bureaucracy
If you find your organization talking a lot about those concepts in the bottom, you're many things, but you're definitely NOT on the road to building empowered teams increase the delivery of value.
Let's stop with the Ctrl + C, Ctrl + V nonsense... There's no recipe to follow, there are simply patterns to experiment with and see if they work for your situation.
The more buzzwords are being dropped, the more likely you're making zero progress.
But hey, at least it sounds cool on paper, right?
Happy Friday and let's wave bye bye to the silly copy-paste Agile era.
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I agree with your take, Maarten Dalmijn.
But look at the incentives: it is so much easier to change processes and tools than systems. Why get burned trying the latter when doing the former pays as well?
“Show me the incentive, and I will show you the outcome.” — Charlie Munger
Source: https://quotefancy.com/quote/1561882/Charlie-Munger-Show-me-the-incentive-and-I-will-show-you-the-outcome
I was a bit confused, when you wrote 'If you find your organization talking a lot about those concepts in the bottom, you're many things, but you're definitely on the road to building empowered teams increase the delivery of value.' did you mean the bottom of the illustration? Did you mean to say if you are doing the things in the bottom of the illustration you are NOT on the road to building empowered teams . . .?