Allen Holub, one of the original Agile Manifesto signatories, disavows what Agile and Scrum are today with the strongest words. Agile has lost its way.
Agile's roots go back to the '80s, influenced by Lean and TPS (Toyota Production System), with teams working autonomously and releasing frequently—long before it was ever called "Agile." The 2001 Manifesto merely captured best practices already in use, but then came the corporate takeover.
Kent Beck's Extreme Programming (XP) was the true pioneer of Agile, not Scrum. Yet, the Scrum "industrial complex" turned Agile into a profit machine with certification mills. Corporations latched onto this diluted version of Scrum, warping it into something unrecognizable — a bloated bureaucracy far removed from Agile’s original intent.
The true version of Scrum can be found on "The New New Product Development Game" published in 1986 by Takeuchi and Nonaka, and it has virtually nothing to do with today's Scrum.
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Holub argues that while Agile's foundational ideas are still strong, they’ve been buried under corporate jargon and certification schemes, leaving today's Agile disconnected from its core principles.
The Agile many know today is a far cry from its origins, polluted by need for control and certification over genuine agility.