2-week sprints are neither always necessary nor required. And yes, there are unfortunately plenty of inflexible idiots pushing cookie-cutter methods like that in industry because they don't understand the deeper reasons behind what they're asking, such as empirical process control theory and the behavior of complex adaptive systems.
But what's equally ad hominem is this implication that every agilist is this incompetent, that no one who goes by that term has ever deployed code, or that Agile as an approach is always wrong and always inhibits delivering good software. THAT is immature. That's taking bad implementations and generalizing them to say that every implementation is automatically bad. Just because the Detroit Lions are historically horrible isn't empirical proof that it's impossible to play good football.
Agile is not two-week sprints. Agile is not daily standups. These are tools which may or may not be appropriate in a given context. Agile is a mindset, not a strict process, and it was originally developed by engineers for engineers. The fact that you're even bringing "Project Managers" into the discussion is telling, because that is not a role which exists in any credible Agile organization, and for good reason.
But what's equally ad hominem is this implication that every agilist is this incompetent, that no one who goes by that term has ever deployed code, or that Agile as an approach is always wrong and always inhibits delivering good software. THAT is immature. That's taking bad implementations and generalizing them to say that every implementation is automatically bad. Just because the Detroit Lions are historically horrible isn't empirical proof that it's impossible to play good football.
Agile is not two-week sprints. Agile is not daily standups. These are tools which may or may not be appropriate in a given context. Agile is a mindset, not a strict process, and it was originally developed by engineers for engineers. The fact that you're even bringing "Project Managers" into the discussion is telling, because that is not a role which exists in any credible Agile organization, and for good reason.