Agile

I feel the more I hear about Agile, the more I hear it associated with negative experiences. Even for myself I have actually kind of grown a bit of a distain for agile. Whenever I go to interviews and ask about Agile and they say “yes we’re big on scrum” I almost whence. And it feels like my experiences aren’t unique. I’m constantly hearing how people just dislike it. Now we all know the story. x and y aren’t doing real Agile. Or “scrum is the problem, not Agile”. Or “they are bastardizing scrum”. I would say I’ve seen Agile work very well. But here is the secret. It only works on fantastic teams. However I think good teams are good with or without Agile. And that’s why I think Agile could be dying. Because sure under the perfect circumstances, Agile works good. But isn’t the promise of Agile to fix broken processes or teams. If I can’t apply Agile to one of the worst teams, and it doesn’t make it better. Then what is Agile actually doing. The reality is that bad teams will never do true Agile or true scrum. And nothing about Agile prevents extreme bastardization of its ideas. So what are your opinions? Have you seen Agile work well? Do you think there is a way to save Agile. If so what does that look like?