Does the Decent Framework™ Replace Agile?

No.

The Decent Framework™ does not replace Agile. It doesn’t replace Scrum, SAFe, Lean, or any of the other process-centric frameworks you may already be using either.

In fact, it doesn’t try to.

That’s because Decent isn’t a methodology for how teams should deliver work. It’s not concerned with whether your stand-ups are effective or whether your retrospectives are insightful. Those are valuable questions—just not the ones Decent was designed to answer.

What Decent Is

The Decent Framework™ is a governance model, not a delivery model.

It focuses on scope, not ceremonies.

It seeks to define who owns value—not how they execute.

If you’re using Agile well today, Decent won’t get in your way. If anything, it will help your Agile teams work better by making their scopes clearer, their owners more empowered, and their dependencies more transparent.

What Decent Does

Decent is designed to solve a different category of problem:

• Why is it hard to scale innovation across the enterprise?
• Why do process improvements stall beyond the team level?
• Why does coordination break down as we grow?
• Why is investment so hard to track back to impact?

These are governance problems—problems of ownership, accountability, and structure—not of backlog hygiene or sprint velocity.

So... Can You Use Both?

Absolutely. Agile is a tool for optimizing within a scope. Decent is a framework for defining and aligning between scopes.

Use Agile to iterate. Use Decent to scale.

One does not replace the other.