TL; DR: The End of “Good Enough Agile”
“Good Enough Agile” is ending as AI automates mere ceremonial tasks and Product Operating Models demand outcome-focused teams. Agile professionals must evolve from process facilitators to strategic product thinkers or risk obsolescence as organizations adopt AI-native approaches that embody Agile values without ritual overhead.
The Perfect Storm Coming After Good Enough Agile
For two decades, many of us have participated in, or at least witnessed, a prolonged performance of “Agile-as-theater.” Now, the curtain is falling. Mechanical Scrum, stand-ups — or Daily Scrum, if you prefer that term — without tangible purpose, estimation rituals that pretend to forecast the future, Jira-as-performance-art; we’ve normalized Agile as a checklist. Useful, perhaps, if you blinked hard enough and never dared ask about the return on investment.