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Agile is not your gas pedal.

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 -  Back to basics It has been more than 2 decades since the agile manifesto was incubated and eventually published. For those who understood the agile values & principles well, 'agile' has been more than a  word in the English dictionary - they have been living agile or being agile . The others, have 'generally' been doing agile with full cognizance & often, labelling it not good for managing project lifecycles - often calling it a misfit . No offence, but this population believes that "agile  is a gas pedal "  & just doing agile will help deliver outcomes faster & sooner . Talking of outcomes, quite often it is perceived that "no matter what project management methodology or technology you use, in the end - all that matters is the outcome!" Is it? Really?!? What about the journey or team hardship, change in plans (etc.) enroute to the destination or simply put  the outcomes ? This ability to change course/action plans is what I'