>Uuumph, to broad a question. It depends a lot on the quality of programmers in your team, how much you can deend on them to work on a project without going astry or how much herding is necessary if they tend to loose focus on main objectives. If you herd lots of cheap programmers, Agile will help you. If you want to accomplish the task with few, but highly competent programmers, don't waste programmers time with Agile group stupidity.

I agree with you 100%...and I agree with that last statement about a million percent

Recently, I told a manager something very similar to that....and if I had read your words earlier, I would have used them. I couldn't have said it better.

I think Sprint metrics are (often) the most ridiculous set of statistics I've ever seen. They imply a level of accuracy that often doesn't exist.