@tobiasmayer "Damage Repair" is a wonderful post, Tobias. Agile coaches spend much of their time debating what they do, and justifying their existence to teams and others they work with. Businesses who hire them don't really know why. One of the major downsides of the Agile revolution is that it has stripped many folks of their professional identity (e.g. projects managers, testers), redefined roles that used to be well understood into something else (e.g. product manager, business analyst) and created brand new roles (scrum master, agile coach, iteration manager, product owner, delivery manager) which only add to the confusion. As you say, many folks in the workplace are shells, shadows of the real person underneath. As an agile coach I have the capacity and desire to help folks find some meaning in their work, in environments that make it nigh on impossible to do so. This makes our pursuit noble, because it is mostly thankless and never going to have a happy ending in the grand scheme of things, but can make a real difference to folks, whether they know it or not. I could go on but I'm tweeting with my thumb from a phone. Anyhow, your post provoked these thoughts, and that is why it is wonderful.

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