Agile is an attempt to turn Pajeets and similar non performers into interchangeable cogs. It has the advantage of reducing the impact of developers that actually know their shit, and forcing them into the peg hole that management has prepared. Lose-lose.

How to work around the Chinese firewall. Voat isn't blocked, but a shit ton of other sites are. Chinese may have high IQs, but are dumb as fucking rocks in other respects.

All the major VPNs are blocked, however using a socks proxy to VPS instances does work. It's still limited to about dial-up modem speed through various parts of the day, I guess whenever their secret police want to fuck with the NSA and need the intercontinental fiber capacity.