It has actually been pretty demoralizing to me participating in agile techniques as a professional. Ive been in SCRUM meetings where everyone would stand in a circle and the project manager would bring in a timer and time everyone when they started speaking. If you went over 2 minutes the PM would immediately cut you off and move to the next person. On other occasions Ive had PMs ask me (in an accusatory manner) why it has taken me 4 hours to do a task I estimated at 3 hours. Keep in mind that these experiences were at a relatively small startup not a mega-corp. I don't know of any other creative, well-paid, educated profession where this would be even close to tolerated and I think its a trajedy that this sort of stuff has become common place. Unfortunately for the company the way I and other coworkers "self-corrected" the process is by moving on to another place where that doesn't occur - ended up being a great solution for me.