Agile Is Intellectually Bankrupt

Agile is intellectually bankrupt.

The central dichotomy, of “Agile” vs. “Waterfall”, is a fictional story about an organisation that over-plans and sticks to that plan.

Agile to the rescue: it plans in chunks and describes an ongoing negotiation between the plan and the work product itself.

It casts waterfall as “bad” and Agile as “good”, not allowing for the nuance and complexity of the real world. It focuses on this false dichotomy, ignoring the Hilbert-space of concepts in project management.

It is a ball of mediocre ideas for incurious people swayed easily by confidently written text. It is a vortex of bad thinking. Free yourself from Agile.