Denning's wrote an excellent article about "fake agile".
According to Denning agile only needs three ingredients:
- Law of the Customer. Be customer obsessed.
- Law of the Small Team. Make sure a small team can deliver value iteratively.
- Law of the Network. Make sure teams work as network without much bureaucracy.
I agree
More in Denning's excellent article: https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2019/05/23/understanding-fake-agile/?sh=201769a84bbe