Agile is not a Fucking Noun
Surprised to see this post so far up on HN.<p>Not only is Agile still very valuable with lots of good lessons to teach us - this guy&#x27;s complaints are technically wrong - his examples pertain to the use of the word as a <i>verb</i> or an <i>adjective</i> - not as a noun. And, to be fair, in the context of software, turning Agile into a verb is perfectly fair.<p>&quot;Agile Master Alliance&quot; - Adjective - it modifies &quot;Master&quot;<p>&quot;How to Agile&quot; - Verb.<p>&quot;Agile Certificate&quot; - Adjective. You could argue that it is a nominalization, but that is truly splitting hairs.<p>Let&#x27;s put it another way: if this guy doesn&#x27;t know what a [gerund](<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Gerund" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Gerund</a>) is, or what [nominalization](<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Nominalization" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Nominalization</a>) is, that is not Agile&#x27;s problem.<p>So, in the end, what is this guy&#x27;s point, other than &quot;get off my lawn&quot;?<p>Edit&#x2F;update:<p>Magdoub&#x27;s point is this:<p>&gt;You don’t need velocity, daily stand ups, points estimations, spikes, scrum masters to deliver high quality software. You just need good people.<p>That is so catastrophically false that I don&#x27;t even know where to start. I mean, really sanity-blasting. Sure, maybe cargo-cult adherence to agile tenets is not going to help anyone, but throwing management methodology out the window and hoping that &quot;good people&quot; just somehow summon good software into being is comically naive.