Interview The Agile Manifesto was published almost a quarter of a century ago. But as the years have passed, its lofty ideals have run headlong into the brick wall of management's desire for process and reporting.
Agile & OODA Loop: Agility as an Outcome w/ Agile Manifesto Co-Author, Alistair Cockburn, PhD | NWO
Jon Kern, one of the authors of the Agile Manifesto, calls this the "Agile Industrial Complex".
The proliferation of processes and frameworks that have emerged in the manifesto's wake are topics close to his heart. "It feels like we took a step back in time," he tells The Reg. "As if the manifesto never existed, and we're back to heavy lifting."
Why are we back with these giant diagrams or giant processes? Well, because it gives comfort to those middle managers who really don't know what's going on as much as they might think they do…
