Agile coach here. You nailed it. One way of looking at these companies is that they're organisms adapted to their environment. If there are weak selection pres

Agile coach here. You nailed it. One way of looking at these companies is that they're organisms adapted to their environment. If there are weak selection pressures around agility and software delivery in their market "environment" then you can expect that they're well adapted to other pressures (i.e. credit risk, or buying labor at one price and selling it at another). Often times these businesses might see reasons for agility, opportunities they could take advantage of, still they really aren't feeling selection pressures so there's no real need to change. How they deliver software with really bad agile is "good enough". Well it will be until it isn't and then it might be too late. So you have all the structures and processes that make one organism good at being a bottom feeder and it's like pushing water up a hill to make them change when they REALLY DONT HAVE TOO. Every once in a while I have a client where this stuff actually matters to them and we have a lot of fun and make amazing stuff.