I always refer back to the original agile manifesto when I read about how badly things have gone. http://agilemanifesto.org http://agilemanifesto.org What a b

I always refer back to the original agile manifesto when I read about how badly things have gone. http://agilemanifesto.org http://agilemanifesto.org What a beautifully simple document, written in clear and plain language. Now consider a paragraph like this one: "How are matters improved by Agile? The benefit of Agile is that, by splitting the project into sprints, we have more opportunities to tweak the project vector, to exercise governance, altering the project’s course. Each sprint offers new control points (during both planning and acceptance), at which we can amend direction. Splitting the project as a whole into a series of such sprints offers us a corresponding number of opportunities to reorientate. Each iteration offers more chances to retune the project. We have much greater granularity of control, and more opportunities to exercise that control." This blog post is, frankly, full of this sort of language. "tweak the project vector". "exercise governance". "control points to amend direction". opportunities to "reorientate" (reorientate? yes, it is a word. it means, according to the OED, reorient). I'm kind of curious, this is HN, there are dev here. Does this sort of language make you eager to sign onto a development team? I understand that lots of things have gone wrong with "agile", but the language we use to talk about it seems to have degraded badly, and in many ways, this tells the story better than almost anything else.