Comment by commandlinefan

One thing not addressed here is: I can make better software. I can fix these problems. I can find them first, and then fix them. I _can't_ do that when I'm under ridiculous time pressure from an "agile coach" who barely knows what an Excel macro is but who, for some reason, is responsible for deciding what gets prioritized and who gets a bonus and who gets downsized. I can't identify and correct complex technical problems when I'm attending a one-hour daily "scrum" explaining that yes, I'm still working on "task" 5398129 and yes, it was a 4 "point" story (because that's the maximum we're allowed), but as it turns out, almost everything interesting and useful is also complex -- in direct opposition to the mindset that drives the oxymoronic atrocity that people now refer to as "agile".