Capital-A Agile is for companies that want the benefits of agile (higher velocity) but don’t want to trust their employees or make any meaningful changes in how the management team operates (micromanagement, committing to rigid feature scopes on rigid schedules).

Obviously this doesn’t increase work but companies get to say they are “agile” and the management team gets to keep doing all the counterproductive management they were doing before. No hard conversations about changing how management operates or unpredictable things like giving engineers autonomy.