I'll add a contrarian view about Agile in big companies--I consulted for a major media company in NYC that used Rally and "did Agile" but it was mostly lip serv

I'll add a contrarian view about Agile in big companies--I consulted for a major media company in NYC that used Rally and "did Agile" but it was mostly lip service and the daily scrum meetings were more like status reports. It was their sheer size and the inability of their project managers to adapt to a non-status-report mode of thinking that made the Agile methodology weak and unsuccessful. I'd say Agile is much more easily adopted in a startup where no prior culture exists to inhibit it. Major companies with older systems in place don't change overnight.