I get it. I really do. I can fully understand the concept of Agile and how it allows faster recognition of value, collaboration and a more adaptive and responsive environment.

It’s been around for quite a while, but it’s still something of a dark art to many, often because they have never needed it, so not ‘throwing shade’ if you are still standing under the waterfall.

The part I am struggling to understand, as someone who is being asked to do more and more thinking in the space and therefore needs to come up to speed, is why the community is so toxic and seemingly at odds over what it actually is?

Given that the Agile manifesto is focused on interaction and collaboration, it seems counterintuitive to me that the majority of posts I see on the topic fall into the following:

• You are doing Agile wrong.
• You are doing the wrong flavour of Agile.
• My Agile is better than yours.
• Waterfall is dead.

If Agile is the future (and yes, I know it’s decades old) and everyone should come along for the ride, then surely a cohesive, educative public approach would be preferable to constant infighting over the right and wrongs of something that is meant to be flexible and adaptable?
Just a thought (not a story, that needs points :-).