That’s an interesting viewpoint, even surprising to me. Can you be more concrete about what you think is wrong with the agile software development movement Kent Beck co-founded, and how it destroys developers?
It has turned into a system that keeps developers in a constant state of crunch time. It simultaneously pushes all responsibility for delivery on to devs under the guise of “the team self organises” whilst stripping them of any real autonomy to actually feel a sense of satisfaction in completing tasks and delivering projects.
When something goes well the anonymity that “the team” creates to the wider business means that praise goes to the project managers and product owners who, realistically, probably did very little beyond the kick off to deliver.
Indeed. In agile, successes belong to the team; failures belong to the individual developer. The higher-ups will know that it was your commit that broke the build, and they know exactly how many story points you delivered -- or did not deliver -- per sprint by your JIRA metrics.
