In and of itself, I don't see much wrong with it. Agile itself does not seem to be the problem. Problems arise when it is heavily abused and applied incorrectl

In and of itself, I don't see much wrong with it. Agile itself does not seem to be the problem. Problems arise when it is heavily abused and applied incorrectly by management, in my experience. My first time doing Agile (well, SCRUMM, but bear with me here) was someone using it to manage multiple unrelated projects at once. Predictably, it crashed a burned miserably. The person who decided on it was suckered by the buzzwords but failed to actually understand the purpose of the process. My current company uses SCRUMM quite effectively, and it's been a wildly different experience. It probably helps immensely that the people in charge are also developers.