[someengineer]

The point the article is making is that all the problems the anti-agile crowd complains about are less related to agile and more to a dogmatic adoption of specific tools. I think the point the author misses is the irony of the whole thing. The anti-agile people get annoyed at something like religious demands for 100% unit test coverage, so they instead adopt their own extreme, narrowly focused rules like refusing all TDD. This is how flame wars work.

I've seen agile methods be most effective at companies where software developers are a minority. Scrums and sprints can be very useful when you've got many outside interests hammering at you for various feature requests and bug fixes. Done right, it keeps the software group's priorities aligned with the company's.