Good teams can succeed with both, but it's billed as a panacea for bad teams.
Do you realize you’re attacking a straw man? Has anyone in this thread said that Agile is a panacea? I think we can agree it is not, nor is anything a panacea.
The response was re: sanedigital's remark that it was a good way to minimally fix (implied) bad teams.
And I've seen it used exactly that way in practice at bad companies.
It's not a strawman if it's lived experience and professed corporate IT strategy at a lot of non-tech companies.
I don’t think this is right. It’s like a sports team: your system, your philosophy, your approach matters. Like in basketball, you might utilize the flex motion offense or you might use the Tex Winters’ triangle.
Good teams can succeed with both, but depending on your personnel and what you’re up against, you might find one strategy works better than the others.