This exactly. Agile allows managers to push all responsibility onto the developers (design, testing, deployment, ops, customer service, spec writing, documentat

This exactly. Agile allows managers to push all responsibility onto the developers (design, testing, deployment, ops, customer service, spec writing, documentation, training, etc), while simultaneously enabling them to demand milestones every two weeks. I have seen this taken to the extreme-- the management at one company I worked for would not specify ANYTHING in writing. Nothing. Not even bullet points on what a feature would do. They would then micro manage intensely (I had a non-technical VP doing code reviews on a Senior Architect). Estimates, however, only included development time, never any other tasks, and were always challenged. Deadlines were always hard. In short, we had all the responsibility of Agile but none of the empowerment. Engineering was to blame for everything. If you think this was some small crazy startup... This companies revenues are about 500m a year. Almost every American has our products in their homes.