Everyone Said We Were Agile. Nobody Could Name the Last Thing We Changed Our Minds About.

I remember the exact meeting where it clicked for me. We had the sprints, the standups, the sticky notes — the whole liturgy. And yet, something felt deeply wrong. Every story in our backlog had been written four months ago, by people who hadn't spoken to a single user. We weren't doing Agile. We were doing waterfall in a costume.