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"I worry that the agile community gets sucked into perpetual naval gazing. A state where it is more important to worry about whether something is 'agile' or not, or whether something is 'more agile' than something else. To me these are not important questions. The important question is whether software development is aligned with the stockholders interests and whether software development can be performed in such a manner as to improve the return to the stockholders. It's all about better software, faster! Good, fast, cheap - pick 3!
Hence, I have no time for discussion about 'but is this self-organizing' or not. I'm not interested in the observed attributes of some 'agile' methods - only in the results."
As someone watching from the periphery of the "cool kids" of agile, as someone not in the software only world and who sees value in "agile" approaches but who also sees value in good practices outside of agile, as well as good agile practices in "non-agile" practices (???), I thank David for some common sense.
(Later...By the way...There's a lot of that same "navel-gazing" in the "TOC community" as well. Sometimes I think that the biggest obstacle to getting good stuff dissemination is the arrogant attitude of the early adopters.)
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