[koreth1]

Scrum is the thing that has tainted "agile" in my opinion, because Scrum is so widespread that many people think they're the same thing.

Leaving aside the "agile is a philosophy, not a methodology" argument, there are well-defined agile methodologies other than Scrum. I've worked at a couple Kanban shops and, while our dev processes were far from perfect, most of the things people routinely hate about "agile" just didn't come up at all because they're actually Scrum features.

If the thing you don't like involves the words "sprint" or "standup," you are complaining about Scrum, not agile.