> Like, lemme get this straight: you expect a six figure salary, full autonomy to solve problems as you see fit, and _also_ bite-sized, well-scoped bug reports/features.<p>> riiiight<p>He's got a point, "Agile" has turned into micromanagement that makes us look like children.<p>"agile" is a buzzword that gets people out of the institutional inertia and hurt feelings otherwise associated with a push to rebuild software development process. Whether the or not the outcome of an "agile" restructure is the true One With The Tao agile is not the point of the buzzword.<p>I know the party line is that any iterative development is tautologically agile, but on the outside looking in, I see agile in practice as processes meant to support a team talent distribution weighted more heavily towards the junior side than are otherwise sustainable.
Yep - it’s the vague stuff that contains a frontier. Frontiers are scary and difficult to navigate. But that’s where the value is, and at the end of the day you can participate in figuring out where the tracks will get laid instead of slaving away at the construction site.