It hadn't occurred to me until now that concerns regarding WF's butchering of Agile Methodologies was too narrowly focused on the methods alone.
Agile has become way more than a method(s). Its original usefulness in software development has been converted by mgmt into a all-to-convenient verb promoting decision making without consequences. It is perfectly suited for the third party offshore workforce. US workforce not so much.
Ironically the effects of agile flow like a waterfall (ha!) from top to bottom. Tech teams are expected to always be ready to pivot to whatever the flavor of the day is. Managers of those tech teams are not motivated by anything other than taking orders and hoping for collective compliance. Make no mistake, this is fear based employment from a severely bi-polar employer.
If mgmt can't keep track of their wins and losses, what does that leave workers with?
What incentives can workers look forward to when the mission is so complex and so abstract? What skill can be gained here?
How can a worker accurately measure their worth? Simply counting the number of times one says "yes i'll do that" isn't going to cut it.
Agile has been we-ponized by mgmt to protect themselves and justified by the growing relationship with contracted work offshore.
It's brilliant and sad.