This is such a strange phrasing. The problem with "agile" is when it becomes manager-heavy and meeting-heavy.
The last firm I was at was ridiculous. One project had about 30 hours of meetings a week. There's no time to get any work done. It's just lopsided manager bullshit.
That's the actual criticism, not some strange dichotomy of things being successful if only it was meeting, manager and also authoritarian focused with some specs decreed by some deputized opinion makers with holier than thou thoughts they wrote down two years ago.
The last firm I was at was ridiculous. One project had about 30 hours of meetings a week. There's no time to get any work done. It's just lopsided manager bullshit.
That's the actual criticism, not some strange dichotomy of things being successful if only it was meeting, manager and also authoritarian focused with some specs decreed by some deputized opinion makers with holier than thou thoughts they wrote down two years ago.