When do Agile practices make little sense?

A few months ago, I presented Agile methodologies to financial auditors. The objective was to demonstrate why agile is relevant to their activities and to push them to rethink their work with agile principles in mind.
It was much more difficult than expected.

As always when giving this presentation, the first step was to highlight the recurring problems within traditional project management: tunnel effect, delays, cost slippage… However this time, I was surprised to discover that “project” didn’t have the same meaning in the audit…