Reminds me of something I read recently:

Not so long ago I spent 5 months obtaining a thirteenth computer for a 12-person team that is the only team in their department that’s shipping successfully, at a Fortune 500 company with a whole agile software delivery department.
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> I’m not talking about a super-computer here. I’m talking about a computer that would have cost less than one day of my billing to get. And yes, Virginia, I did offer to take the day off and show up the next day with a new box. I always do. They always decline.

Defining Agile: A Musing [geepawhill.org]

Edit: Apparently, 10C does not like multi-paragraph links.