I know "agile" (we were on the XP flavor) was working for the teams I worked on in the early 2000s, so I'm sure not _all_ agile is cargo-culting... but it seems

I know "agile" (we were on the XP flavor) was working for the teams I worked on in the early 2000s, so I'm sure not _all_ agile is cargo-culting... but it seems that the things that made agile work did not survive broader adoption. Which seems like a contradiction, but really isn't: The agile I knew attracted a certain kind of people, and when those people worked together, it worked. But when agile became the thing everybody does, the dynamic of attracting the (perhaps few?) people that actually made agile work was lost.