Agile would be good if it existed as described and was a stable organizational mode. In reality, every "Agile" place I've worked for really uses Agile-for-name

Agile would be good if it existed as described and was a stable organizational mode. In reality, every "Agile" place I've worked for really uses Agile-for-name-value-only, which amounts to daily half-hour long status reports on what you did yesterday and project deadlines that come from on high that have to be ratified pro forma by the engineering team. Yes, I know that's not true Agile. Just like the USSR wasn't true socialism! Agile can never fail, it can only be failed.