I was in an XP shop in the semi early days, and it really was a grass roots counter reaction to the enterprise over the top culture of the time. In the teams I

I was in an XP shop in the semi early days, and it really was a grass roots counter reaction to the enterprise over the top culture of the time. In the teams I've worked on that had a good sense of the essence and spirit of agile principles, we've done extremely well. But it's always been context specific and very fluid. Where it's been a mandate from on high, where it's dogmatically enforced and people say things like "that's not Agile": it's always been a bit of a shitshow. Usually it's just window dressing on old school command and control style management. I've personally found almost all SCRUM teams I've been on to be more of the latter. Not all but close. I think fundamentally business school is just teaching a more static model than what really makes sense with modern software development, and that pervades throughout and beyond the organization. Hopefully we'll see that slowly evolve as competitive pressures punish the less adaptive ones.