The one true takeaway of agile is measurement, metrics, and accountability. Your boss was sold on agile on the premise that it lets him keep continuous, precise tabs on you and the entire team, to ensure that y'all are hitting the OKRs for this quarter and so that when something goes wrong, the guilty party and what they did can be identified; or when the schedule slips, the laggard can be identified. This is the reason why shops are so gung ho about agile development. And this, I am forced to conclude, is agile. A game of Mornington Crescent in which the shop pretends to care about the stuff in the left column when the actual goal is to create a work environment so precisely measured, controlled, and optimized it makes Fred Taylor cum in his grave.