Why Agile Frameworks Fail - A Psychological Analysis

I would like to paint a picture. If it's familiar, keep reading. If it sounds outlandish and not relatable, this is not the article for you. You have a small company. You are winging it from day to day, adapting and iterating with no, or minimal, process. Everyone talks out loud of process, of predictability, of structure they will eventually implement. But your small team pushes forward with late hours, big over-the-weekend features that come with incremental wins, and while everyone is exhausted, the sentimentality is "at least we don't have big company culture". The entire team is vastly intelligent, capable to find patterns and angles on problem spaces that many others can't see. Innovation is built in at every step. It's a core value, as is similar mantras like "have fun" and "employees first" (even though not a single person in the team knows how to maintain "work-life" balance). You become successful. You either get a big client or you reach a tipping point on income that allows