Your piece nailed it. I'm not sympathetic to mmeadows' caveats. They ignore the fact that Agile (aka XP, Scrum) has sold itself as a Magic Bullet (per Brooks) f

Your piece nailed it. I'm not sympathetic to mmeadows' caveats. They ignore the fact that Agile (aka XP, Scrum) has sold itself as a Magic Bullet (per Brooks) for a long time. Big-A Agile proponents need to chose between big claims and plausible excuses -- they can't have both.