The result: at least according to the study, Agile projects fail exactly 268 percent more often. Not 267 percent or 269 percent, and how can you argue with precision.
Manifestos are manifestly dangerous. They start out by describing how a new way of doing things can solve old problems, which is often necessary. Once the new ways are in place, though, the nature of the problems is going to change.
Agile's problem isn't Agile, it's the people who believe in it. To be more specific, it's the people who believe that adopting a new, preferably fashionable methodology, can by its mere presence fix what went wrong in the past.
Look at this from the viewpoint of the people delivering the projects - those charged with putting finger to keyboard and making code happen. They have tasks to do, goals...
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