That's unfortunately roughly what I am seeing. It is pattern of management pushing on teams and then team members themselves declaring "agile" without willingn

That's unfortunately roughly what I am seeing. It is pattern of management pushing on teams and then team members themselves declaring "agile" without willingness to actually understand what and why they want to achieve this way, without willingness to understand what Agile really entails and why it works. Being "agile" is a political issue now in every major corporation. Everybody "is" "agile" because not declaring "being agile" puts you against your management who themselves don't understand and don't care and wouldn't recognize Agile way of thinking if they stumbled on it. But that's just what you have to do because you already have scores of other things to fight for and you can't fight every war so you decide this is just one of the things corporations do and you will just try to do your job. This is really problematic because it completely undermines efforts of people really understanding and trying to introduce Agile way of thinking. Since everybody else already "is agile" and since the effects can only be seen through participation of everybody in the way of thinking and only after a longer period of practice, the management is very unlikely to ever observe any Agile team and and observe positive results of that team as flowing from them working on being Agile. Effectively management is never going to learn Agile because the setup is such that it severely impedes any efforts to introduce and promote Agile.