The age of cargo cult Agile must end.

Via LinkedIn, I learned about an article called “The age of Agile must end” by Michael Burnett, and I’ve since seen it pop up again in other forums.

I found the article to be filled with misconceptions but given enough people have somehow found it insightful, I thought it might be worth writing a response.

At first, I thought “The age of Agile must end” was an example of the cargo cult reinvention cycle but looking more closely, it seems like it’s both a cargo cult understanding of Agile AND arguing for something that is not aligned with…