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> Personally, I never liked agile. I like to get a description of a problem. Prototype. Take that to that customer and ask for feedback. Iterate. QA. QA. QA. Release.

That is agile for me. What is agile for you then?

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Well, this is the process IBM consultants were selling around when Agile started to grow.

Anyway, Agile has that one principle that is focusing on people, not process... You can make any process agile.

I think maybe there is a conflation being made between Agile and Scrum.

An almost deliberate confusion between the agility of making changes to software easy and the agility of running like hell because you are chased by deadlines.

Since when was scrum about deadlines?

Managers are about deadlines, and I'm afraid Scrum is about managers.

Its weird how far things have come from the original goals: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agile_software_development#The...

I'm seeing a lot of processes and tools over people and interaction in more recent iterations of Scrum implementations.

Sprint commitments were originally the opposite of imposed deadlines.

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