Agile is often zero help. Imagine you're starting from scratch. You want create a company that will make a fancy new database. You need to know things like how

Agile is often zero help. Imagine you're starting from scratch. You want create a company that will make a fancy new database. You need to know things like how many people you'll need to hire, how much those people will cost, and some idea of how long a viable project will take. There's no scrum team yet, as you haven't hired them. You still need to generate some sort of answer.