I have seen some of the most excruciating fake-agile organizations you can imagine. I am 100% on board with efforts to criticize that. But even the critics see

I have seen some of the most excruciating fake-agile organizations you can imagine. I am 100% on board with efforts to criticize that. But even the critics seem to get blinded by methodology. Methodology is only a second-order effect. The real issue is cultural and structural. If your culture is all about command and control, your agile methodologies will keep mysteriously not helping. Debating methodology is quite beside the point. Some organizations are just structurally waterfall, deep in their bones, and can't be salvaged without massive social upheaval. You don't fix them by changing what people do, you fix them by changing how people define their relationships to the organization and each other.