🚨 I just destroyed your Agile mythology with one number... 👇
📉 The data is brutal, and nobody’s talking about it.
Waterfall era. Developers spent 75% of their time coding....
Then came Agile, and DevOps
The promise: collaboration over process.
Better software through teamwork.
Silos removed. Devs working with Ops.
The reality?
Coding time collapsed to 9%.
Not 50%. Not 25%. 9%.
🙀 Where did it go? 💥
☝️ 45% swallowed by collaboration overhead.
Daily standups, sprint planning, retrospectives that turn
into therapy sessions when social friction hits.
✌️ 32% lost to information seeking.
User stories never ready before development starts.
Product owners operating like robots.
JIRA as a communication substitute.
But this isn’t all...
Context-switching. Meetings without agendas.
Slack messages. “Quick coffee chat?”
This is killing devs’ cognitive focus and power.
So your coders are not only coding 9% of their time,
but they do it with only 30% of their cognitive potential,
and a 50% higher error probability.
🚫 This isn’t Agile’s philosophy.
💪 The agile software development we fought for.
🙊 This is the curse of frameworks implemented by the book.
💥 What destroys developers before AI even arrived.
😹 That’s the cost of your beautiful Agile certifications...
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Now I challenge you 🫵
1️⃣ What’s your team’s real coding percentage?
2️⃣ How many Pomodori of uninterrupted focus do they get daily?
Drop two numbers below.
If you don’t know these numbers, you’re managing blind.
Your “Agile transformation” is the killer you’re paying for.
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