--- title: Agile is Dead! The Endless Debate! | daily.dev description: Agile is often misunderstood and misapplied, leading to the belief that it is dead. However, the true essence of Agile lies in continuous learning,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/agile-is-dead-the-endless-debate--z7yl6eaoa twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Agile is Dead! The Endless Debate! | daily.dev og:description: Agile is often misunderstood and misapplied, leading to the belief that it is dead. However, the true essence of Agile lies in continuous learning,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/agile-is-dead-the-endless-debate--z7yl6eaoa og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/Z7yL6eAOa.png og:image:alt: Agile is Dead! The Endless Debate! 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 is Dead! The Endless Debate! **[Substack](https://daily.dev/sources/substack)** · 4 min read · 21 upvotes · 6 comments ## Summary Agile is often misunderstood and misapplied, leading to the belief that it is dead. However, the true essence of Agile lies in continuous learning, empowerment, adaptation, and embracing discomfort. Humility is also crucial in acknowledging our role in the problem. Agile is a mindset, not just a process, and it requires a long transformational journey to achieve true agility. ## 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. **@przemekhernik** · 1 upvotes > Clean Agile book written by Uncle Bob is a great explanation of what Agile is and that's not only using Jira and having Scrum Master in the team. > > It's worth to read, especially if that's not too long 😀 > > https://www.amazon.com/Clean-Agile-Basics-Robert-Martin/dp/0135781868 **@esteban31** · 1 upvotes > Good article, with one big dificulty to apply agile summary in one sentence : "Agile cannot survive when command & control reigns." **@dragonsong3k** · 0 upvotes > Hot Take: > I understand the need for organization and managing the workflow. > However, I feel like most orgs over plan. Especially with Agile/Scrum. > > I have been at many orgs where the planning gets so out of control everyone is burnt out by the time actual work needs to be done. > > **How about just Define, plan, adjust, do.** **@thomas\_l** · 0 upvotes > Nice take **@ghazirasyid** · 0 upvotes > agile zombie is also nice terminology for dead agile ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#agile](https://daily.dev/tags/agile), [#project-management](https://daily.dev/tags/project-management) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/agile-is-dead-the-endless-debate--z7yl6eaoa) ```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 is Dead! 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Especially with Agile/Scrum.\nI have been at many orgs where the planning gets so out of control everyone is burnt out by the time actual work needs to be done.\nHow about just Define, plan, adjust, do.","datePublished":"2024-04-25T22:46:55.888Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/Z7yL6eAOa#c-vkWAscJm8","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Raul Ortiz","url":"https://daily.dev/dragonsong3k","image":"https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/a/AGNmyxYln6WKJ4B9hGl1vC6fImKmyeIzk-CkcMBOL4Mz=s96-c"}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"Nice take","datePublished":"2024-04-02T08:17:56.193Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/Z7yL6eAOa#c-yVkZwhy4n","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Thomas Laure","url":"https://daily.dev/thomas_l","image":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/25416156?v=4"}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"agile zombie is also nice terminology for dead agile","datePublished":"2024-04-20T03:57:38.318Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/Z7yL6eAOa#c-WOloZ5wOT","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Muhammad Ghazi Rasyid","url":"https://daily.dev/ghazirasyid","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--3Pydi_Gv--/f_auto,q_auto/v1701222409/avatars/avatar_gy6zs2LXkPpasiEnQoo06"}}]} ```