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I don’t follow. If your managers have disempowered you, it’s not the “agile custodians” fault, nor is it Agile, it’s your management’s fault and you should want nothing else to do with them instead

That or invent something better that management cannot infect

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I agree that it was the management’s fault, and that’s a large part of why I moved on.

I just would also like to suggest that my experience on that team is not unique. I think that more companies might be successful in implementing Agile if the relationship between management and the development team was more clearly defined; and if the managerial role was more clearly defined (to include constraints on managerial roles). Empowering knowledge workers requires managers to relinquish some of their oversight and authority, by definition. I don’t think Agile training or the manifesto makes this explicit enough.