Agile is Dead. AI Killed It.
Agile, PRDs, sprint planning, standups, retrospectives - all of it was designed as preventative damage control. We created this system because execution was expensive. Building features took weeks. Shipping the wrong thing was catastrophic. So we invented processes to make damn sure we built the right thing the first time. Meetings. Specs. Sign-offs. Planning poker. At big tech, the approval process was enormous and exhausting. You had maybe 3-4 chances a year to make a big release. It had better count. So everything got scrutinized. Everything got debated. Everything got planned to death. ...