It seems like all (pretty) good ideas, this one was meant as a set of guidelines to help teams build better software. That's until agile became a dogma (to some

It seems like all (pretty) good ideas, this one was meant as a set of guidelines to help teams build better software. That's until agile became a dogma (to some) and a means to an end in itself, with most the focus on getting agile 'right' and the project success being secondary. It's kinda like the idea of unions when they where first started to protect workers that were being exploited like farm animals. Nowadays some big unions could care less about the workers, and care more about their own survival as an entity and get trapped in activities which have nothing to do with their original mission. Of course, please don't see this exmaple as saying all unions are bad.