In our case Scrum was the favored methodology. I'm not arguing against Agile or even Scrum, by the way. I've been following and dreaming about working in a team

In our case Scrum was the favored methodology. I'm not arguing against Agile or even Scrum, by the way. I've been following and dreaming about working in a team like they described on the Extreme Programming pages on c2.com years before Agile was a twinkle in our managers' eyes. However, in our case implementing something closer to the pure ideal of the Agile Manifesto proved too challenging: - In internal SW projects it's difficult to find a customer that's willing to put in the time required to drive the development. - Everyone has multiple jobs, some include ME and EE that are hard to agilify - Managers don't really want to turn over scheduling authority to the team - Exploratory and learning takes a backseat to knocking items off the backlog