[wpietri]

Indeed, my experience so far is ideas getting watered down to incoherence is the rule, not the exception. For Agile, definitely [1], but for all sorts of other stuff. Object orientation. Lean Startup. Startups period (e.g., WeWork). Dunning Kruger. And a depressingly large number of other things.

The consolation prize is that anybody willing to dig in can often find a lot of value that other people overlooked. But what always gets me is that it becomes almost impossible to talk about that deeper value, because people already think they know it. Agile being a prime example here.

[1] My Agile postmortem is here: http://agilefocus.com/2011/02/21/agiles-second-chasm-and-how...