…e system is the team. Quit with the local optimizations already, and realize trust is the №1 issue. Stop unfairly putting dev under a microscope and letting everyone else hide in a black box. (Why aren’t we just as concerned with how strategy teams operate? Or how legacy architects are constraints in the system?)
Theory vs. practice, remember? We need to be pragmatic. Agile in practice is almost always AINO. Seems a problem with the movement itself, doesn’t it? There are more important things to learn about anyway, including (but not limited to) Lean UX, Lean Enterprise, Beyond Budgeting, Theory of Constraints, Throughput Accounting, Design Thinking, DevOps, Marshall’s Organizational Therapy, and so forth.