[shepardrtc]

Pretty sure he's mad at Scrum and not Agile. The article describes the difference.

Of course, he's living in a fantasy world where there is no politics in business and no slow-moving management. My company used to be wholly Waterfall and now they're slowing moving toward Agile/Scrum. To say that its actually improved things is an understatement. Is it the best method possible? Certainly not. But good luck convincing upper management (of a non-startup) that some non-quantifiable method will bring greater productivity and faster turn-around times. Agile/Scrum is a solid "thing" that you can present to upper management and show them case studies on. They can get behind it and not worry about looking foolish for following some developer's pie-in-the-sky utopic vision (hey, let's get everyone on Linux workstations while we're at it!).

That being said, Agile/Scrum is not the final destination, its simply a step in the right direction.