alt Hacker News> In my experience, to successfully reduce process, you need to have really good people.
Yes, but...
Don't all of these Agile methodologies predicate their success on having at least a decent proportion of really good people (including stakeholders!) in the team?
Real Agile, yes (look at the pedigrees of the signatories on The Manifesto).
In my experience, modern SV companies are obsessed with hiring armies of short-term, barely-qualified LeetCoders.
They sell dross. It would be a problem, if people didn't buy it, but people don't seem to mind, paying for crap.
I worked for a company that did really good (and expensive) stuff.
They are struggling, these days.