AITOW

Quite a few experienced developers contributed their opinions on why found agile so problem. Check it out https://github.com/rayfrankenstein/AITOW/blob/master/README.... Agile has fundamental structural problems which, combined with office politics which it can destructively amplify, make it an inevitable nightmare to work in.

Here’s a compilation of hundreds of social media comments explaining why agile/scrum is so problematic https://github.com/rayfrankenstein/AITOW/blob/master/README....

From “Agile In Their Own Words”, https://github.com/rayfrankenstein/AITOW/blob/master/README.... “One aspect of agile, and of SCRUM in particular, is that the team is expected to 'forecast' which stories it will 'burn down' for a sprint. The phrase "forecast" is often replaced with "commit", and a manager-type will interpret this to mean he/she gets a fixed price deal with the team, yet without any quotation on behalf of the team for assessing risks/opportunities, as with a regular fixed price contract. As a freelancer, you can't let this happen, so it leads to unpleasant discussions. I also take issue with the term 'sprint'. By definition, a sprint is a short-term sports activity to reach a goal in the shortest amount of time possible. But just as in sports, you can't expect to do one sprint after another without quickly burning out, and

Testimony from dozens upon dozens of developers that think that scrum is useless, toxic bullshit: https://github.com/rayfrankenstein/AITOW/blob/master/README....

And here is a list of every rebuttal you could give them: https://github.com/rayfrankenstein/AITOW/blob/master/README....

What developers really think about Agile https://github.com/rayfrankenstein/AITOW/blob/master/README....

Here's what many developers will actually say about agile and scrum when their managers and scrum masters are out of earshot: https://github.com/rayfrankenstein/AITOW/blob/master/README....