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The “Agile” Team That Was Actually Just Doing Waterfall in Sprints
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The “Agile” Team That Was Actually Just Doing Waterfall in Sprints
Every two weeks, they ran a sprint review. The stakeholders attended. The demos were polished. The velocity charts trended in the right direction. And nothing significant ever changed based on what anyone said in that room.
That’s not agile. That’s theater with a two-week rhythm.
I’ve coached enough product teams to know that the mimicry of processes is one of the most expensive habits in software development. It looks like agility from the outside. It absorbs all the cost — the ceremonies, the tooling, the vocabulary; but delivers almost none of the benefit. Teams often know this, but feel powerless to speak up because the ceremonies themselves have become the “proof” of professionalism.
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