The Agile Manifesto was a genuine revolution. It identified real problems with traditional management and gave us better ways to work. Scrum, Kanban, XP—these methodologies have improved millions of projects.

But here's the uncomfortable truth: Agile didn't eliminate coordination overhead. It redistributed it.

Daily standups. Sprint planning. Retrospectives. Backlog refinement. These are still humans coordinating with humans—just in different patterns. A developer on a Scrum team spends 5-7 hours per week in ceremonies alone—that's 12-18% of their time. We replaced waterfall ceremonies with Agile ceremonies. The coordination tax remained.

In this episode, I explore:→ What Agile got right: why it was necessary and what it solved→ What Agile got wrong: the assumptions that limit its effectiveness→ The ceremony creep problem: how Agile implementations become what they sought to replace→ Why "doing Agile" became more important than "being agile"→ The coordination overhead that Agile never addressed→ What comes after Agile—and why it requires a different foundation entirely

If you're an Agile practitioner, this episode might be uncomfortable. But it's not an attack on Agile. It's an honest assessment of what Agile can and cannot do—and why the next evolution requires us to move beyond it.

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