[mpweiher]

> success largely depends on the skill and experience of the individuals involved.

Yes. Well sort of. The key insight here is that in software at least, this is a pre-requisite anyhow. If you don't have skilled and/or experienced people, nothing will save you.

So you might as well tailor your process around the expectation of a certain amount of skill, because although you can't use process to save you, you can use process to f-ck up a team that would otherwise perform well.

However, my practical experience with agile includes taking a team of so-called low-performers and turning the team into one of the highest performing teams within the organisation. Using agile. (No fauxgile, no scrum, no standups, etc.)

[emilsedgh]

Young individual without enough skill/experience joins a team and fails miserably. Same individual joins another team and succeeds.

Skills and/or experience are _not_ prerequisite for every single individual. You need enough skillful/experienced people to create a process/culture that allows less experienced engineers to join and flourish.

[mpweiher]

If young individual later flourishes, same individual obviously has some skill (and/or talent).

> for every single individual.

I didn't write "every single individual", and for good reason. Note the story in the second part of my comment...