They certainly didn’t kill it, they just added to the long list of people who say they are agile but continue to operate in a command and control world because top leadership can’t accept reality.

Even with something that gets it so close to correct like Scaled Agile, they’ll tell you it only works if senior leadership is on board. Otherwise everyone will be paddling upstream. I’ve seen it work beautifully and I’ve seen it completely screwed up.

At one company within a few hours from me, about 2/3 of the company were actively campaigning for it after knowledge spread through the group. CEO couldn’t be bothered to show up for an overview presentation.

Eventually, the board removed the CEO and everybody is doing much better.