When software developers complain that they have to attend a meeting at 10 p.m. and are not able to leave work to pick up sick children, they are not complaining about agile development per se. Instead, they are complaining about the lack of power and decision-making within the organizational setup. Agile development works well for software developers in Scandinavia, Northern Europe, and United States because the software teams are powerful and privileged. When clients demand agile development from software developers elsewhere, those developers are not empowered. Instead, the power to choose
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