I've worked for a number of companies that did pay to "be agile". It was sort of a cargo cult thing sold by middle management to upper management or upper manag

I've worked for a number of companies that did pay to "be agile". It was sort of a cargo cult thing sold by middle management to upper management or upper management to other upper management. Delivery of working software is supposed to trump everything else in theory, but in practice it often doesn't.