It's designed to mitigate _delivery_ risk, not _organisational_ risk.
> If a team can't pull off agile what do they think would have been a safer strategy?
I would probably argue that Scrum (which I barely consider to be "agile") is more resilient to inexperience, and therefore lower risk. It's the McDonalds of processes. You're not going to get amazing results, but it will still operate despite hiring a bunch of inexperienced people into it.
It's designed to mitigate _delivery_ risk, not _organisational_ risk.
> If a team can't pull off agile what do they think would have been a safer strategy?
I would probably argue that Scrum (which I barely consider to be "agile") is more resilient to inexperience, and therefore lower risk. It's the McDonalds of processes. You're not going to get amazing results, but it will still operate despite hiring a bunch of inexperienced people into it.