Good read but also pretty frustrating. Sure, management has to buy in, but the author portrays a defeatist attitude. The ScrumMaster should help promote and foster agile acceptance.
An agile edge case should be a temporary catalyst to cut teeth and lead to full blown agile adoption, otherwise agile is pointless.
I've been a part of couple of cargo cult teams in the past few years and it's really frustrating to try to get others to think in Agile terms. Having an agile authority to help enforce various agile methodologies is beneficial when sometimes you're ignored as a piddly code monkey.
Looks good...but from a usability standpoint, would it kill you to label the fields? Which one is start date, which one is end date. What about i18n? "Where are you going?" is a little too ambiguous I think. I presume that's what you were going for, but locality can be quite granular. Hopefully there is an intuitive interpreter parsing that text.