Is going faster always the answer? Maybe not! A better goal, in business and in life, is to control the tempo for your benefit, whether faster or slower.
I'm curious about the claim that companies are adopting agile management practices badly. My experience with "agile management" is bad, and I'm wondering if that's unique or not.
But mainly it's a very second-and-third-hand sense that your experience is common, and that it's a way to pretend to give teams autonomy without really doing so. I do think it's fading from the zeitgeist over the past couple years, probably with good reason.
I'm curious about the claim that companies are adopting agile management practices badly. My experience with "agile management" is bad, and I'm wondering if that's unique or not.
The closest thing I have to evidence is this review that shows the most technologically successful orgs don't actually use any formalized agile methods: https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/project-management-in-tech
But mainly it's a very second-and-third-hand sense that your experience is common, and that it's a way to pretend to give teams autonomy without really doing so. I do think it's fading from the zeitgeist over the past couple years, probably with good reason.