> Which in a way makes most agile processes a sort of oxymoron.
There's no "sort of" about it. Rigid, context-blind processes -- whether sold as "Agile" or not -- are exactly what Agile is a reaction against.
No process is Agile, and a team is only Agile insofar as it evaluates what works for the particular team in the particular context and places that ahead of preconceptions about what process should be that derive from other sources.
There's no "sort of" about it. Rigid, context-blind processes -- whether sold as "Agile" or not -- are exactly what Agile is a reaction against.
No process is Agile, and a team is only Agile insofar as it evaluates what works for the particular team in the particular context and places that ahead of preconceptions about what process should be that derive from other sources.