I think the Open Agile Adoption ideas have been unfortunately unnoticed. It's thus hard to tell if it would have been fairly efficient. What's sure though is that the widespread mandate approach used during the past decade does a disservice to teams.

I don't think it's always unfolding exactly like this but there's some truth to that. Most projects see a "let's rewrite it in X" phase, this is rarely the best outcome.

You have to be willing to experiment and adjust in order to truly be agile. Otherwise you indeed just do dailies and call yourself agile.

Definitely true. This is why I refrain from using the term nowadays... this allows to focus on the principles instead. Takes more time to explain but allow for slow and steady change management. Indeed it's not perceived as an all or nothing situation anymore.

Interesting opinion piece. Very often we see people mandating a "process". It's almost always the wrong way and how you end up with people following blindly "Scrum by the book" or "SAFe". The approach proposed here is smarter: give the business constraints, let people choose what works best for them, support them along this journey.

Definitely this, what matters most is being able to change previous decisions. In comparison each decision itself is less important.

Interesting musing about change management: don't come up with something too perfect if you want people to make it their own.