I wonder if any of these Agile haters ever had the pleasure of working with RUP (Rational Unified Process) and endless UML diagrams. Agile was a response to th

I wonder if any of these Agile haters ever had the pleasure of working with RUP (Rational Unified Process) and endless UML diagrams. Agile was a response to that trend, cutting the BS and recommending teams would focus more on software quality and collaboration and less on worthless processes. It was a cultural shift more than anything else, and a very welcome one. Sure, lots of people tried to "sell Agile" by pushing sticky notes everywhere and replacing "Project Manager" with "Scrum Master", as if these changes alone would solve all their problems. This does not mean that Agile itself was a bad idea, it only means that anything that goes mainstream is bound to be misunderstood and misused by a lot of people.