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The advantage that Agile brings to the table is that it enables more tracking and measurement at finer-grained time intervals than other approaches. Tracking and measurement is the key feature of Agile or any other software development methodology. It enables the business to determine what needs to get done, if it's on track to completion, and if not, what the pain points are. Having a short OODA loop for these three points is paramount to the business's success and in order to do that you need to track and measure. You can't manage what you can't measure, and Agile processes give the business data and analytics about how their development efforts are going at least at a sprint level of granularity; depending on local practices it could be as fine as one day. That's huge. It could potentially add visibility to all aspects of the business -- so get ready to see Agile everywhere.

TL;DR, if you believe Agile was created to help you do your job better, you might also believe that open-plan offices were really adopted to "foster collaboration" and not make you easier to spy on at work.