I’ve worked in Agile Theater before. It’s pretty ineffective and disappointing. Most companies that claim they’re “doing Agile” are just trying to avoid requirements or accountability for delivery altogether.

I’m not the first person to write about their distaste of Agile when companies do it poorly. One of my favorite quotes comes from this article by Michael Church where he discusses the false dichotomy when compared with waterfall:

Waterfall replicates the social model of a dysfunctional organization with a defined hierarchy. Agile, quite often, replicates the social model of a dysfunctional organization without a well-defined hierarchy.

https://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2015/06/06/why-agile-and-especially-scrum-are-terrible/