--- title: Agile Cult | daily.dev description: Agile has evolved into a cult, deviating from its original principles. It is now filled with fanatics, dogmas, and its own mythology. The author argues that... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/agile-cult-1yps0g75m twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Agile Cult | daily.dev og:description: Agile has evolved into a cult, deviating from its original principles. It is now filled with fanatics, dogmas, and its own mythology. The author argues that... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/agile-cult-1yps0g75m og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/1ypS0G75m.png og:image:alt: Agile Cult og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Agile Cult **[Community Picks](https://daily.dev/sources/community)** · 11 min read · 16 upvotes · 4 comments ## Summary Agile has evolved into a cult, deviating from its original principles. It is now filled with fanatics, dogmas, and its own mythology. The author argues that Agile should focus on delivering value and adapting to individual goals rather than getting caught up in rigid practices and pure adherence to Agile principles. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@jcda** · 1 upvotes > I totally agree with you **@alekseevi15** · 1 upvotes > excellent read, thanks **@saifulislam982** · 1 upvotes > Every single engineering person who builds there is a only one to get things done, one way on how things should work, tries to find a single answer to doing things and preaching how things will work out is someone I will always strongly dislike. It's not about Agile. It's about people not understanding how basic management and human psychology and personality traits work. That is all there is. SEs should strongly understand how people behave to build environments where everyone can find their own strengths. Ironically, preaching Agile as the best way to do things is thus the most anti-Agile... **@archmage** · 0 upvotes > fuck agile --- Tags: [#agile](https://daily.dev/tags/agile), [#scrum](https://daily.dev/tags/scrum) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/agile-cult-1yps0g75m) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Agile Cult","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/agile-cult-1yps0g75m","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/agile-cult-1yps0g75m"},"datePublished":"2024-02-26T16:43:35.143Z","dateModified":"2024-05-09T09:28:47.883Z","description":"Agile has evolved into a cult, deviating from its original principles. 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