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by arendtio 1954 days ago
Actually, because I also feel that the word has been used in many contexts and I would like to sharpen the meaning. So you might say, that I could go around an find all things that work aka good practices and say 'This is Agile', but in fact Martin Fowler (one of initial authors), said, that they even discussed calling it 'Conversational' but ultimately choose 'Agile' [1]. I think that example shows, how important verbal communication is, from the perspective of the Agile Manifesto.

[1] https://youtu.be/G_y2pNj0zZg?t=1399