Agile started to die in my division the moment we had to go to some buggy web page and fill out our progress.
Agile became just another vehicle for micromanagement. Our scrums became apologies against what we said we'd accomplish. Meetings were held by managers, outside the group, to discuss concerns about meeting our goals.
There were levels of permissions on the task list; the team couldn't edit tasks, and had to get permission to make changes. Pretty soon we weren't deciding what to do and how long it would take, all that was being done for us, by managers.
Scrum became another set of manacles, and something to be avoided at all cost.
Agile became just another vehicle for micromanagement. Our scrums became apologies against what we said we'd accomplish. Meetings were held by managers, outside the group, to discuss concerns about meeting our goals.
There were levels of permissions on the task list; the team couldn't edit tasks, and had to get permission to make changes. Pretty soon we weren't deciding what to do and how long it would take, all that was being done for us, by managers.
Scrum became another set of manacles, and something to be avoided at all cost.