Extensive discussion on agile yesterday under My 20-Year Experience of Software Development Methodologies | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15476357 (Oct 2017, 142+ comments)

>sytelus: The obvious problem is that these folks prescribing the development process are not active developers.

>mmcnl: The agile manifesto was in fact drafted by software developers. Also, agile doesn't prescribe any process at all, in fact, it does the opposite. Agile in essence is quite beautiful, unfortunately it gets twisted and turned upside down until it's just another methodology (which is exactly the opposite of its original meaning).