Don't believe the hype

A rant about repackaging, overselling and overpromising Agile and product management approaches

I take issue with people who present a new approach to creating value, promising the moon. With this, I mean promises like:

• Approach XYZ will help you work 4 times faster.

• This way of working will improve your team by several orders of magnitude.

And then, when you criticize them that you couldn’t even come close to the promised improvements, they will sa…