Why project managers who have outgrown reactive rituals are turning to proactive, component-based engineering. Introduction: A Global Crisis Beneath the Agile Banner Software projects are still failing at alarming rates—despite decades of "Agile adoption." Engineers are burning out in London, Bangalore, New York, and Tokyo. Morale is collapsing. Quality is declining. The methodologies we were told would save us—Scrum and Kanban—are often making things worse. Agile promised...