From Support Tool to Team Member Here's where Extreme Agile gets interesting—and a little uncomfortable for traditional Agile practitioners. In traditional Agile, tools support the team. Jira tracks stories. Slack facilitates communication. GitHub stores code. These are passive instruments that do what humans tell them to do. These are directed tools. In Extreme Agile, AI doesn't just support the team. It participates as a team member.
The Problem Agile Solved—And The New Problem We Face Twenty years ago, software development was drowning in documentation, rigid waterfall timelines, and projects that took years to deliver anything meaningful. Then came the Agile Manifesto in 2001, and everything changed.