This is not as unpopular as what reading about productivity and process from blogs or books by people who sell canned methodologies will make you think. Thinkin

This is not as unpopular as what reading about productivity and process from blogs or books by people who sell canned methodologies will make you think. Thinking retrospectively I think more than half of the projects I've worked in practiced agile in a way more akin to your views than to what you are complaining about "everyone does". It's also not too different to what old books like Fowler's refactoring or the Working With Legacy Code book say, or what modern books like Philosophy of Software Design say.