[bunderbunder]

And it fails for pretty much the same reason Marx's ideas failed: it may sound like a harmonious utopia on paper, but in practice the whole thing is inherently brittle and unstable and immediately collapses into a maximally malevolent perversion of itself upon contact with humans' tendency to behave like humans, like the sociological equivalent of a prion disease.

[taylodl]

Agile tends to fail because all-too-often the team's attention turns to the pomp and ceremony of "Agile" over getting the work done. I've met teams that believe they can wave their magic Agile wand and make the work go away. They tend to get a bit upset when I point out doing that work is your job.

[the_af]

> And it fails for pretty much the same reason Marx's ideas failed

It should be noted that Marx's ideas didn't fail, insomuch as most of his work is a (debatable, but not non-sensical) description of capitalism and its problems.

Maybe you meant some of his predictions, or the future society implementations of other people calling themselves Marxists?

Agile, regrettably, mostly did fail to live up to its promises.