If agile isn’t dead, why is it still not working?

Agile software development has outlived wave after wave of technology innovation, but in 2023, is the methodology on life support?

Agile needs a retrospective.

It’s been 22 years since the signing of the venerated Manifesto for Agile Software Development. Yet many organizations still struggle to embrace agility. Despite billions spent on consultancies, certifications, frameworks, and whole departments, there are a lot more caterpillars and chrysalides than butterflies to show for the agile revolution. Which brings us to ask:

• Why don’t more organizations have the finish lines of their agile transformations in sight? 
• Is it because something created by 17 white men over a weekend more than 20 years ago can’t hold up anymore?
• Is it because things like Agile HR and Agile Marketing and DevOps are all the rage and it was only ever meant for the development of software?
• Have companies really embraced agile or are they just going about agile-in-name-only?
• Are Waterfall or Prince2 methodologies having a resurgence, or do plenty of enterprises still think agility is cutting edge?
• Do we really need daily stand-ups? Is anybody still standing anyway?

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