This is a 1:1 cross post of a post authored by Michael O. Church over on Quora. I've asked Michael to join as I'd love to see this community discussing his article. Given that some of the stuff Michael writes resembles some of my thoughts, I'm holding back my comments for a while. Before I get into why this "Agile" stuff is horrible, let's describe where Agile/Scrum can work. It can work for a time-sensitive and critical project of short duration (6 weeks max) that cross-cuts the business and ...