Ahh, but "aspects of Agile" are not Agile and probably not unique to Agile anyway. For example everyone agrees that breathing is a good thing, the fact that Agile doesn't (yet anyway) rule out continuing to breathe is very little to its credit.

However Agile is similar to the newer medicine show called "DevOps." Similar in that dumping more unskilled voices into the pot will somehow magically create success.

You can have great success combining the two as "Agile DevOps." What does this mean?

It is a social engineering tactic that involves cosying up to the users and the operators ("admins" - oh I can hardly keep a straight face) to get buy-in. It does mean some wasted time implementing crackpot notions and making them take part in testing so they can see what lunacy they are so you can rip them back out and reach successful results. The trick is to implement and discredit as many of their wacky ideas as early as possible, after which they're just along for the ride and mostly sit quietly.

You get information you need out of the users about actual requirements that they are too illiterate to express in writing, and you get resources out of the uneducated "certificated" box jockeys.

Be sure to hand out badges, pizza parties, etc. all around and issue status reports praising their roles and contributions to the effort.

Smarmy? You bet. This why some burn out and others take to drink or vanish into the woods and start eating mushrooms though a few thrive on it and eventually run for political office.