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The Mystry of Bloated Agile Process

Have you noticed Agile is slowly and surely bloating. More and more practices, checks and bounds are added to projects in the name of Agile. Lots of books on a variety of topics (in some cases completely unrelated) is coming out under the Agile brand-name.

Instead of focusing on what more we can add to Agile, why is majority of the community not think about what is not adding value and removing it out of Agile? Why are we not thinking about:

How can we put our Agile process on a Diet?

For example I think Estimation is a wasteful activity, we should throw it out. So are iterations, fixed time releases and many more things that might have made sense a decade ago when some of these methods were evangelized. Using Agile values and principles for so long now, I think we have a better perspective about its future direction.

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.


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