This whole Agile Coach debacle has helped me realize something that hadn’t fully landed with me before: agile started as a movement driven by builders to «build better», but it is largely dominated now with people who don’t know how to build and look at agile as a management process style. These are MBA-like folks who are trying to figure out how to manage an IT organization. But that wasn’t what agile was about. It was about a better way to build stuff, better stuff, by collaboration and not getting stuck in our ways.
@Patricia collaboration, most especially, by managing ourselves more than being managed.
@uep @Patricia definitely this. In a previous life I watched Agile solve some significant problems, only to see them replaced with even more intractable problems when managers above team leaders started to attend. The same people who wouldn’t let us use the word “refactor”. 🙄