[a_c_s]

Agree 100%: agile practices can be great.

Hiring a consultant to teach 'Agile' is easy: the change of practices from something completely top-down to something that empowers the people at the bottom is the hard part and some orgs aren't capable of changing. Too many orgs are built around micromanagement, they don't know any other way.

[tremoloqui]

To these orgs it's a matter of trust and power.