Historically a ridiculous percentage of software projects either failed entirely or suffered massive overruns. For larger, older companies, big-A Agile consult

Historically a ridiculous percentage of software projects either failed entirely or suffered massive overruns. For larger, older companies, big-A Agile consultancies were able to sell training and services by touting Agile as a way to achieve savings. They may have even succeeded to some degree at achieving a higher likelihood of eventual delivery and lower overruns. Smaller companies and early stage startups wanted and needed more lightweight processes. Those that used little-a agile were more likely to succeed and grow instead of going out of business. So there’s a survivor bias at play. Then everyone else cargo cults and copies whoever looks like they know what they’re doing.