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Is agile a scam?

I'm asking a provactive question, I know. But only because I'd love to hear your opinion on the topic.

Agile is when the developers take tasks that was usually assigned to a project manager before (when we didn't work in agile).

It's like a new form of capitalsim or rationalization when part of the work is outsourced from people with higher salary (project manager) to people with relatively lower salary (developers).

It's similar when companies in the 90s started to outsource their workforce from high cost countries (North America, Western Europe) to low cost countries (Sout America, Eastern Europe, Asia).

What is your take on that? A good new work model for software developers or a fairy tale told to scam software developers that they can "now finaly take responsibility for their own work" and be more "inclusive" in the process?

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Avalander

Sounds like you've been working at a place where they said they were agile but they weren't. Just read the agile manifesto and principles. Agile is all about giving the team autonomy, reducing the feedback loop, and reviewing and improving periodically. If it doesn't align with this, they are selling you something else, not agile.

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Hmm.... Ok

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Dave

Agile is when the developers take tasks that was usually assigned to a project manager before (when we didn't work in agile).

That's the worst definition of Agile that I've heard.

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David Israel

You need to read this article forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2019...

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Ben Sinclair

No, it's a scrum.

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Lol. That was a good one