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You are danger close to seem like you are defending agile. I am all in on blaming kickback consulting. But we can't blame agile's failure on consulting companies.

There was a genuine and optimistic belief in agile among programmers and management. They tried and failed refusing to admit the mistake and doubling down on all the BS.

It works perfectly fine to hire consults to do welding courses for the employees. If agile was a good idea "agile consultants" would do fine to.