alt Hacker News> Well, right from the Agile manifesto
The Agile manifesto is great. It is simple, straightforward, and most importantly, it clearly defines itself as a statement of opinion, with a counterpart to each of its value. And yet so many people do exactly what the manifesto tells them not do to. Why? Just why? It is as if a clothing brand has "beach and sun over mountain and snow" as its value and people go to ski with them and complain that they get cold.
Agile is not on size fits all, sometimes you need comprehensive documentation for instance. In this case, just don't do Agile, the manifesto is really explicit in that it is not the right methodology for you. But for some reason, Agile is fashionable, so you take it anyways and try reshape it into the V-model you should have used in the first place and get the worst of both.
> And yet so many people do exactly what the manifesto tells them not do to. Why? Just why?
The manager on the top says "do Agile" because his friends say that this is now the cool thing. The managers on the bottom have no idea what it means, so they do some random thing and call it "Agile", and report job done. The manager on the top is happy and gives them a small bonus.
And as managers circulate across companies, they keep introducing the "random thing we did at my previous job and called it Agile" as the one true Agile, so the whole randomness converges to one specific version (with Jira and long meetings and other stuff).