> agile has killed the happiness...meetings...rituals...meta-work...not actual productivity.
All of that isn't actual agile. It's Fauxgile and has nothing to do with what agile is about, which is about removing impediments to productivity, removing meetings (why were there standups? Because they shouldn't exist in the first place, and if you absolutely positively can't avoid them then at least make them as short as possible by making everyone as uncomfortable as they should be) and laser-focusing on actual productivity.
> (If agile is done well though it can be amazing but that's another topic to me)
Yes. I would phrase it as: if agile is actually done.
All of that isn't actual agile. It's Fauxgile and has nothing to do with what agile is about, which is about removing impediments to productivity, removing meetings (why were there standups? Because they shouldn't exist in the first place, and if you absolutely positively can't avoid them then at least make them as short as possible by making everyone as uncomfortable as they should be) and laser-focusing on actual productivity.
> (If agile is done well though it can be amazing but that's another topic to me)
Yes. I would phrase it as: if agile is actually done.