> I have suffered all the bad parts of Agile much like everybody else, and a lot of what you say sounds painfully familiar. This doesn't invalidate my main point though.

Agreed, and apologies for the assumption. I got a little bit pissed, not at you though. :)

> Just as an aside, the first Scrum guide came out in 2010, and this is what in my memory created the widespread usage of Agile in general and this flavour of Agile specifically. This matches my memory that the best experiences I have made with Scrum all happened between ~2011 and ~2014.

Oh I know, but I believe both you and I witnessed a lot of similar techniques during our careers. At one point they just figured they'll give them a lot of names.

> Sorry for not having made this clearer, I assumed it was obvious that I was sharing my own experiences, which is why I didn't prepend "..for me" or "..in my experience" anywhere.

Yeah I know I was a bit difficult here, my idea was to bring visibility to our different bubbles. I've heard positive stories about Scrum / Agile many times but I am yet to live in one. :(