[tutuca]

Agile, is in practice, a way to have the dev team under more strict scrutiny than anyone else in the org. It doesn't happen anywhere else, mostly because other industries have a long standing unions and working rights instead of free "professionals" doing services.

[regularfry]

Which is ironic, because one of the driving design decisions in both XP and Scrum was to provide protection for the dev team from overbearing project management.