[lmkg]

I've said something like this before, I'll probably say it again.

The change to Agile is often led by management, not by developers. And when it's led by management, it's done in a way that keeps management central to the development process (which is the opposite of original Agile), which means an over-focus on process.

Part of this is cynical survival skills: management wanna manage. The more forward-thinking ones probably realize that original Agile is an existential threat, and they can 'get ahead of' that threat by controlling how it's implemented. But most commonly, it's just plain simple myopia: Process guys will tend to view Agile as a process because they're process guys. And when they implement it, they will make management of the process the central role in everything.