[samd]

Don't read this article either. Instead read the actual Agile manifesto. It's really short, but very insightful. After you've read it stop and think (we're programmers, we're supposed to be good at that) about how your current process, or a potential process matches the principles laid out.

http://agilemanifesto.org/

http://agilemanifesto.org/principles.html

[brazzy]

The problem is that the manifesto doesn't give you a concrete way of doing things; Scrum does, and it can be really as simple as this article says.

Basically, the article is a backlash to things like http://programming-motherfucker.com/ , which is a backlash to people doing Scrum, XP, etc. so wrong that it seems no better than the beaurocratic monstrosities that the agile manifesto was a backlash to.

[samd]

Alright, read the manifesto first, understand it, then go read about Scrum.