[simne]

From my experience and talks with tops of really large projects (country-wide wi-fi network as example), I think, people should first make at least one project with waterfall approach and only after this could use Agile really effective.

Discipline is really problem within agile teams, and Agile approach is not effective when team is not disciplined enough.

But, when team already gain good discipline, for example within large waterfall project, will really flourish after switch to Agile/SCRUM.

So, as I see, good approach to use waterfall project as bench and as filter (some people just could not work in team at all, or could not work in Agile environment, so unfortunately need layoff them), and than switch survivors to Agile.

Must admit, could exist other ways to achieve efficient Agile, but at the moment I don't think they as effective as waterfall train bench and only after it Agile.

[simne]

But if you will not limit Agile to SCRUM, other things frequently have much success.

For example, I hear many good things about how good fit Kanban with ops.