> Agile doesn't magically make people more productive AFAIK not only was that never a claim/scope of agile, but rather the opposite is deliberately accepted wi

> Agile doesn't magically make people more productive AFAIK not only was that never a claim/scope of agile, but rather the opposite is deliberately accepted with agile: You accept quite some overhead during development, plan for constant refactors, shift of scope etc. The justification is, that while waterfall in theory is the most efficient and productive, in practice you very often end up with a product that doesn't fit your customers/users need. So working 2years on a product that is thrown away in the end and started over is less efficient and more expensive than working 3years on it in an agile way and getting (mostly) what you want in the end. Note that is the one of the reasonings of agile, I am not claiming that these statements and premises have actually proven true in the real world.