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The clearly-titled Project Management: A Surefire Way to Kill Your Software Product by Steven Lowe hits the nail on the head. If you've ever found yourself frustrated or overwhelmed by a process—purporting to be agile or otherwise—you'll find this essay is a refreshing read.

You are certainly correct that the people are more important than the process. Funny, that's the #1 value on the Agile Manifesto!

Well, I don't want to cherry pick too much. So here are some more shops that use Agile:

Toyota, Cisco, Phillips, Intuit, Honeywell, Ericsson, Amazon, Google, LinkedIn, SalesForce.

Still not enough? This HP survey found that 69% of development shops now are pure agile or "leaning" agile.
http://techbeacon.com/survey-a...

As a lead video game tester for three years, I had to talk down the expectations on the delivery schedule.

I used to e-mail this picture to some people when I got fedup of trying to manage expectations.

Most of the inevitable delays come from them trying to get their bonuses instead of fixing the problems in their code.

Heh, I'm used to seeing people treated like shit in consultancy and nobody has an expectation of bonuses.