I tend to agree, its also killing "DevOps", "SysOps", "SecOps", System administration... etc. I worked at a place that tried to apply Agile to all of those process (only in some ways though) and the results were horrendous. Oh, if any of you out there use Signal for encrypted messaging, Moxie is the primary driver of that project. Archive: https://archive.today/mRAsH From the post: >>black hat There's a rot at the heart of modern software development that's destroying innovation, and infosec legend Moxie Marlinspike believes he knows exactly what's to blame: Agile development. Marlinspike opened the second day of Black Hat with a talk that was ostensibly supposed to be a fireside chat with Black Hat founder Jeff Moss, but the Signal founder stole the show with an opening chat laying out a case for reclaiming the "magic" of software development that's been lost after 20 years. That loss, he argued, was due to stuffing developers into "black box abstraction layers" that strip them of the freedom needed to be innovative.