Agile as Trauma — Dorian Taylor

There are a lot of interesting points in this article that Taylor makes about the limitations of Agile. I think a lot of this is spot on. Many organizations and teams just adopt Agile without thinking about the problem they are trying to solve. I continue to see the missing part of this around the cost of refactoring, which isn't mentioned here. Fundamentally I think teams need to understand "What is the 'cost' if we get this wrong?" The cost by the way could be time, actual lost revenue, anything really. If it is very costly to be wrong, you need to build process around that. You should also be thinking how you can change that. Because in general it is always more difficult to change things that have a high cost to mistakes.