From my experience it can work. I've worked on a team where we got really good at estimating, had really useful planning sessions, a good backlog. Worked pret

From my experience it can work. I've worked on a team where we got really good at estimating, had really useful planning sessions, a good backlog. Worked pretty well and had some advantages in terms of getting the team to be engaged and take ownership. The problem with Agile in general is that it can easily be twisted around to make anything you want. A great team doesn't need agile methods, but it can use them and still be great, and possibly even get some improvement with careful use. Agile intended to fix organizations but organizations don't want to be fixed, and certainly not by a bunch of software people...