A Practical Guide to Agile Part 5: Scaling and Fake Agile — Why It Breaks and How to Recover
The destination of the series. What gets hard when you scale beyond one team to many (SAFe, LeSS, Spotify, Conway's Law, the scaling paradox), how the decay signals from Parts 1–4 harden into 'fake Agile' (cargo cult, the Agile Industrial Complex), and how to recover. Agile is not a toolset but an inspect-and-adapt learning loop — Part 5 of an Agile series (finale).
