I am not very Agile nor am I certain I want to be. Do not get me wrong, I am not satisfied with how my current employer operates, despite claiming to be Agile, but I do not believe becoming more Agile would eliminate a lot of the issues either.<p>Much of the article reads like a great idea on paper, but I can see plenty of problems arising during execution. Can some teams make it work? Perhaps, but from what I have read, witnessed, and experienced, Agile is a burnout-machine.
I love these kind of think pieces, and I agree with most of the points - it’d be nice to have engineers that are engaged and knowledgeable about their customers… but I’ve never seen this in practice, except for like… emergencies or super urgent things (and it’s always the best, haha). But I wonder about how to tee this up to management or examples of teams doing this in real life.