Agile is the self-fulfilling truism that small, focused teams with a cooperative customer can create good software. If you create software in a contractually or

Agile is the self-fulfilling truism that small, focused teams with a cooperative customer can create good software. If you create software in a contractually or regulatory heavyweight setting and are "doing agile", you're fooling yourself[0]. But people like cargo cults, so we should let them have their fun. [0] For additional fun, we've had projects with 200 page of nonnegotiable specification that the customer wanted "to be done agile" (but any deviation from specification had contractual penalties attached).