CommodoreBeard

Very insightful observation. As someone who has worked in companies just like the one you described, fully agile startups and horrible hybrids invetween, I think that the biggest failure of the application of agile is that persons outside of the development bubble see agile as a solution to old late, overspent, under delivered solutions. Really the agile manifesto needs to be applied top down. Frameworks like SAFe attempt to solve this. In truth the most powerful application of ‘agile’ every entity in an organisation can apply is to fail as fast as possible. third party is slow to interact and hard to deal with? Switch provider or offer assistance. Hiring staff is tough? Look internally at recruitment team and remuneration offered. Project is late and costing to much? Cancel it, don’t pump more more resource in