Knowing a lot of the early Agile people, I&#x27;d say your bit about &quot;most people writing most about the various trends and ideas did so to mainly to make a buck&quot; is both helpfully true and dangerously false.<p>There are definitely some people who say, &quot;Oh, X is fashionable, so I&#x27;ll jump in and become a thinkfluencer.&quot; Those people are dangerous. There aren&#x27;t many, though; call &#x27;em 10% or so.<p>There are plenty more people who jump in to participate but just don&#x27;t understand the ideas very well. They&#x27;re not really out to make a buck. They&#x27;re mostly trying to help people; it&#x27;s just that they have a poor understanding of how little they know. These people often do very well because their clients also don&#x27;t know much, and really don&#x27;t want to know much. This is the bulk of the market, say 75%.<p>But then there are 15% of people who are sincere, very smart, and deep thinkers. This is often a hindrance in making a buck. Their ideas are so radical (in both senses of the word) that a lot of their potential audience gets scared off. However, they are definitely worth listening to. Their solutions may not match your circumstances, so you shouldn&#x27;t follow them blindly. But for me they&#x27;re the ones most likely to trigger deep reevaluation of something I thought I understood.<p>My take is that the Extreme Programming community is mostly in that latter camp. If you&#x27;re really looking for an approach with the values that you state, I&#x27;d encourage you to check them out. The original books, 15+ years old at this point, are a bit out of date, but still useful as foundation. The community itself has mostly moved on to different practices, but Josh Kerievsky gives a good summary of where it has gotten to:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.industriallogic.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;modern-agile&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.industriallogic.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;modern-agile&#x2F;</a>