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[Robert C.] Martin criticised both Scrum and XP for becoming “too meta”. Scrum was criticised for unrealistically expecting everything to be ideal and for promoting certifications as a way to confirm someone’s professionalism. On the other hand, XP was criticised for being too strict. As an interesting demonstration, he asked everyone in the audience to raise their hands and then started listing original XP practices, asking people that do not use a particular practice to put their hands down. My estimate is that there were about one and a half thousand attendees, but only a few hands remained raised after the fifth or sixth practice being listed. When he asked who in the audience has unit test coverage larger than 90%, most people simply laughed.

(Emphasis mine)

From The fifth element of the Agile Manifesto

Interesting; this was at the Agile 2008 conference, so one might expect higher-than-average adoption of Agile practices.

Not sure what this means. Flaws in Agile methodology? Lack of will power? Unrealistic expectations? Some Agile is still better than no Agile?