{"id":3267,"date":"2025-02-19T23:11:09","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T23:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.smharter.com\/blog\/?p=3267"},"modified":"2025-03-05T16:10:45","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T16:10:45","slug":"2025-digest-agile-the-ugly-the-bad-and-the-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smharter.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/19\/2025-digest-agile-the-ugly-the-bad-and-the-good\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 digest: Agile the ugly, the bad and the good"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Common misunderstandings<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a collection of common misunderstandings found in many companies adopting Agile, fuelled by some large consultancy company and some practitioners&#8217; mistakes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Agile Theatre<\/strong> (AKA performative Agile voided of the key elements that make things work better)\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Post: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smharter.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/13\/same-words-different-meanings\/\">https:\/\/www.smharter.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/13\/same-words-different-meanings\/<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Linked-In post for comments and interactions: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/lucaminudel_am-i-missing-something-important-here-fyi-activity-6885003251209551872-Y65c\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/lucaminudel_am-i-missing-something-important-here-fyi-activity-6885003251209551872-Y65c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/lucaminudel_am-i-missing-something-important-here-fyi-activity-6885003251209551872-Y65c<\/a><br><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Agile Anti-patterns<\/strong> (detrimental practices)\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Full list: <a href=\"http:\/\/p2.fed.wiki\/view\/welcome-visitors\/view\/common-agile-anti-patterns\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">http:\/\/p2.fed.wiki\/view\/welcome-visitors\/view\/common-agile-anti-patterns<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Linked-In post of one popular anti-pattern Agile playbook: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/lucaminudel_agile-agileantipatterns-playbook-activity-7036280536629145601-M1If\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/lucaminudel_agile-agileantipatterns-playbook-activity-7036280536629145601-M1If\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/lucaminudel_agile-agileantipatterns-playbook-activity-7036280536629145601-M1If<\/a> <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Linked-In post of another one popular anti-pattern Agile Maturity Models: <br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/lucaminudel_agileantipatterns-agile-maturitymodel-activity-7038829895417786368-aSNx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/lucaminudel_agileantipatterns-agile-maturitymodel-activity-7038829895417786368-aSNx<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Major problems created by the Agile Industrial Complex<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a collection problems leadign to bad Agile that have been created by the economical exploitation of Agile popularity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Agile Imposition, certifications exploitation, end of critical thinking<\/strong>: <br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smharter.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/14\/reflections-on-the-state-of-agile-in-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.smharter.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/14\/reflections-on-the-state-of-agile-in-2024\/<\/a><br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Scaled &#8220;Agile&#8221; frameworks widespread failures:<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>SAFe: <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/SAFe4DecisionMakers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/SAFe4DecisionMakers<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Popular website summarising these findings with a critical tone: <a href=\"https:\/\/safedelusion.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/safedelusion.com\/<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Market reaction: <br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/lucaminudel_agile-agility-scalingagile-activity-7159198954184654848-I5_Q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/lucaminudel_agile-agility-scalingagile-activity-7159198954184654848-I5_Q<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Reactions of some authors of practices assimilated by scaled frameworks: <br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/lucaminudel_safe-agile-safe-is-not-agile-heres-why-activity-6859034441424109568-8FR8\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/lucaminudel_safe-agile-safe-is-not-agile-heres-why-activity-6859034441424109568-8FR8\/<\/a><br><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Large consulting firms canned solutions and standard recipes:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/agileOffering4DecisionMakers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/agileOffering4DecisionMakers<\/a><br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Agile professionals populaton change:<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smharter.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/11\/agile-what-changed-from-the-pioneers-to-todays-practitioners\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.smharter.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/11\/agile-what-changed-from-the-pioneers-to-todays-practitioners\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Good alternatives rooted in agile that work well in many great companies<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a list of positive effective examples of Agile adoptions. It is not complete, it is just a small example to compare and contrast with the bad examples listed above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>How large successful companies achieve agility at scale: <\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smharter.com\/blog\/how-large-successful-companies-achieve-agility-at-scale\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.smharter.com\/blog\/how-large-successful-companies-achieve-agility-at-scale\/<\/a><br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Agile Time Machine<\/strong> (overview of the pivotal moments and momentous ideas worth spreading again, and a general feeling of the original essence):<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smharter.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/28\/the-principles-of-people-centred-agile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.smharter.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/28\/the-principles-of-people-centred-agile\/<\/a><br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Collection of Agile practices and patterns for the whole organisation<\/strong> (alternative to scaled frameworks):<br><a href=\"http:\/\/p2.fed.wiki\/view\/welcome-visitors\/view\/agile-practices-and-patterns-for-the-whole-organisation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">http:\/\/p2.fed.wiki\/view\/welcome-visitors\/view\/agile-practices-and-patterns-for-the-whole-organisation<\/a><br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>One of the many examples of principle based adoption at scale of Agile:<\/strong><br><a href=\"http:\/\/p2.fed.wiki\/view\/welcome-visitors\/view\/agile-at-scale-generative-principles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">http:\/\/p2.fed.wiki\/view\/welcome-visitors\/view\/agile-at-scale-generative-principles<\/a><br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>One of many examples of theories, prinicples, behaviours that can help bring good agile forward<\/strong>:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Interview: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trusted-magazine.com\/en\/post\/q-a-with-luca-minudel-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.trusted-magazine.com\/en\/post\/q-a-with-luca-minudel-1<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>People-centred Agile principles: <br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smharter.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/28\/the-principles-of-people-centred-agile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.smharter.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/28\/the-principles-of-people-centred-agile\/<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A collection of principles, theories and models relevant to Agile:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smharter.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/11\/a-collection-of-principles-theories-and-models-relevant-to-agile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.smharter.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/11\/a-collection-of-principles-theories-and-models-relevant-to-agile\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For all companies that are now sustaining or gradually restarting their investments in Agile &#8211; here is a summary of decades of lessons learned by companies adopting Agile<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lean-agile","category-software-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smharter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smharter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smharter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smharter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smharter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3267"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.smharter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3277,"href":"https:\/\/www.smharter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3267\/revisions\/3277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smharter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smharter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smharter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}