Agile works fine. Software engineering methodologies don't kill projects, managers kill projects.
Rather, people kill projects.
We've all seen plenty of projects that were brought down by others than just managers, incl. developers.
People, and usually these are managers, are what kill projects ultimately. But the methodologies, or lack thereof, are the weapon the people use to kill projects.
Because it's time to start to invent new Bullshit™ marketing terms.
Anyone remember XP? You can find more of them here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_development_methodolog...
It's the very consultants that are now blamed for corrupting Agile that made Agile popular. Agile wouldn't be a thing without the feedback loop of the industry it spawned.
Everyone believed, and one day they stopped believing. It's as if perfect "Agile" was nothing but a figment of people's collective imagination.
I've always had a skeptical eye about all this. Some useful things, nothing new, just a fresh coat of fancy buzzwords used to re-invent common sense.