Well sure, if you doom the project before you start, with a fixed price and scope, it will fail. The original primary point of the Agile Manifesto is to stop

Well sure, if you doom the project before you start, with a fixed price and scope, it will fail. The original primary point of the Agile Manifesto is to stop doing that. There's no excuse for it, unless you are required by law as a government contractor, and in thar case no one expects a successful result anyway.