[varelse]

I don't think agle/lean/scrum is the underlying problem. These methods, like any other, have their place.

But in my painful experience, large corporations seem to:

1. Apply all the micromanagement bits they like (daily standups, sprints) and ignore the rest of the methodology. This then creates a horrible Lovecraftian mutant methodology about which others have written, but IMO sucks.

2. Insist on a one-size-fits-all approach and broadly speaking, agile is fine for incremental development of software with solid and understood requirements, but it goes off the deep-end when there's any level of open-ended research required to get a satisfactory result. Ironically, this part is inextricably intertwined with the first point wherein fixed schedules and requirements are hybridized with daily standups and 2-week sprints.