Agile initiatives can have a surprisingly short run. At first everything seems rosy, but as soon as the going gets tough, the experiment is history. In "Unintended Consequences -- the Agile death march" I told the sad story of a team demoralized and stricken with "delight withdrawal". It got so bad that team members were resigning. The abandonment of Agile by the organization was the next likely step. But did it need to be so? What might have been done differently to avoid such a messy outcome?...