Comment by madrox

When I got my first EM job in 2011, implementing true agile was the dream. I became a zealot to every PM or business leader that came my way. I insisted that not only would we get more done, but we'd get better quality stuff. It was a beautiful dream.

I wouldn't say my idealism failed all at once, but through death by a thousand cuts. There are lots of scenarios where trying to bootstrap development into agile is simply more difficult without any clear gain...at least when it comes to principles around measuring progress.

In all my time in the industry, I've never met someone who lived true agile for more than a year that wasn't in a very small startup.