Comment by diydsp
5 years ago
Agreed. Original agile connected developers and customers through valuing sw features. Today's agile is whip-cracking with the value of features obscured from developers who waste customer time doing unjustifiable work. It's more of a social game than one that benefits customers, so it can not last forever.
Thanks. I think you've done a better work at describing the situation than I did.
The original agile manifesto emphasized collaboration with the customer. Scrum defined roles such as product manager and scrum master, and then the industry injected even more roles in between the customer and the developer...
Fast forward to 2021, we have "agile" developers that have never met a customer. So much for customer collaboration.