The Elephants in the Agile Room

Agile accepts that there are politics and does acknowledge this. Agile can't fix politics any more than it can fix needing locks on doors. But, it does make it a lot harder to play politics by requiring a lot of transparency in the process and requiring people involved to play very specific and well defined "roles" just to name two.

With Agile, organization politics do come to light a lot faster. In my opinion this is good.

Agile does not, nor should it try to, fix the problems brought to light.

Good to see more honesty breaking out.

What is still fun for me is trying out experiments, learning from them. Reading about others trials in how to organize teams, programming practices and deliver as much value as possible. Keeping track of elephants like these was distracting.

It is a sign of a healthy community.

Agile was hyped to high heaven, and now its founders and promoters are worried that criticism might be over-stated?

When you make bold claims, people react energetically. Some people will be the old order (per Machiavelli) and some will be natural contrarians. This doesn't mean they're wrong.

The more you push your position, the bigger the backlash.

When fertilising the fields of marketing, don't be surprised to find weeds thriving.