I would like to propose a different perspective in Scrum and Agile: they're really actually reasonably good.

Or rather, they do go wrong, but they go wrong for reasons outside of the scope that a development process considers. Instead, I argue the issue is related more with the way that managers and employees interact, and the expectations they both bring to the table.

More explicitly, I am arguing that if the development process changed at a company with a manager running agile processes, the manager won't necessarily suck less if they were already bad. Likewise to the employee.

My suggested action is to treat this as a question around social environment, and tweak accordingly. This would be different for each company I would expect.