It has no good ideas. All the ideas that appear good are taken from agile, which 20 years ago WAS good. But then the process managers came in, the management seeking clarity on delivery dates, and engineers who got into it for a good job seeking ways to avoid doing real work because they’re actually not into engineering. It’s a morass of everything awful about stupid management cargo cult bs meant to emulate but not understand excellent engineering culture, with roles meant to keep project managers employed, and overriding everything stupid “rituals” to try to measure velocity and delivery dates for leaderships need to control. It delivers none of what agile promises because it is satisfying the needs that makes waterfall so slow.
It's completely wild to me to have been in the field long enough to remember when agile was revolutionary, and then to see it slowly become twisted by decades of mismanagement into something that people hate today.
For most engineers today "agile" just means using jira, 30-60 minute long "stand-ups", and a perpetual panic about not getting enough done in 2 weeks.
