So let me put it this way: Most businesses do not know how to manage software projects. That's not entirely special to software - most businesses don't really

So let me put it this way: Most businesses do not know how to manage software projects. That's not entirely special to software - most businesses don't really know how to manage anything. Agile tools offer a framework for technical teams for fighting off and thwarting crappy management that doesn't understand how to make software. But some crappy management organizations are really, really hard to thwart. Worse, some crappy management organizations have figured out how to neutralize agile tools, by co-opting them and trying to use them to continue crappily managing the software project. Sometimes they do this pre-emptively, neutering one of the only tools a technology organization has to fight back. I would love to know what else people have had success with as a way to fix crappy management other than setting up a properly agile 'safe space' for tech to happen in.