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Can we get something straight?  The point of “Agile” is not dogmatic adherence to daily standup and two-week sprints.  Rather, it’s an attitude.  An attitude of being responsible to users’ changing needs and providing what’s needed when its needed.  Two-week sprints and daily stand-ups can support that but they don't intrinsically create it.

Perhaps instead of “Agile” they should have called it “Responsive” or “Reactive”.  Wait, where have I heard those words before?…

Everyone has jumped on the Agile bandwagon the past five or six years (well, not everyone), but in corporate and especially tech circles you’re scorned and shunned if you speak ill of the Agile god.  Which, come to think of it, is a whole lot like how people felt about Voldermort.

Far too often the intent of Agile (collaborative responsibility to the user’s needs built on frequent...