I'm basically saying the same thing. agile had a lot of promise, though is definitely biased towards working with external devs, but in practice, in my experie

I'm basically saying the same thing. agile had a lot of promise, though is definitely biased towards working with external devs, but in practice, in my experience, is boils down to the DM and PM roles turning the team into a feature factory 9/10 times. That said, it isn't really about agile, it's about the specific people, and how suddenly adopting some framework doesn't really change them or their incentives.