The real question is, does the Agile Manifesto accurately predict or reflect reality? Place I was working at, my boss arranged something of a coup so he could

The real question is, does the Agile Manifesto accurately predict or reflect reality? Place I was working at, my boss arranged something of a coup so he could work for Boss-Boss-#2 instead of old, not "with it" Boss-Boss-#1. A project appeared, Boss-Boss-#2 wanted to meet with me. Told me we would be doing Agile, also when would I have this done? I hadn't seen anything at this point. Promised meetings with stakeholders; no such meetings occurred. And so on and so forth. But we were doing Agile, he said. Despite having zero to work with and being ill the entire time, I delivered ahead of the deadline. Turns out the deadline wasn't real, nobody looked at it for seven months. Felt very nimble, very Agile! It doesn't matter what the Manifesto says. It was written without orthodoxy. There are no section where it says, "If this doesn't happen, you are no longer Agile. The Stakeholders must be beaten with wooden rods, then they are to purify themselves in the waters of Lake Minnetonka. Should the PM fail to beat them with wooden rods, the PM is no longer Agile, and must be beaten by the devs." It has no teeth.