hot take from 2002 on scaling Agile:
"Then again, on projects with more than 250 people, methodology will have almost no impact on success or failure - politics will dominate." - Agile Software Development Ecosystems by Jim Highsmith
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"My guideline for 'barely sufficient' rigor in complex projects is 'employ slightly less than just enough'. Why? Complex problems [...] are solved by creativity, innovation, good problem solving, and effective decision making. All of these capabilities suffer from emphasis on rigorous, optimizing processes." - Agile Software Development Ecosystems by Jim Highsmith

IIRC Alistair Cockburn and Dave Snowden have said similar things.
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from Agile Software Development Ecosystems by Jim Highsmith:
"A development life cycle emerges from XP: listen (requirements) - test - code - design."

Interesting that the last three are in the reverse of the conventional order.
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