If I'm reading him right, he doesn't like that Agile is dominated by consultants, meaning people who teach other people how to be agile. I agree with that, but

If I'm reading him right, he doesn't like that Agile is dominated by consultants, meaning people who teach other people how to be agile. I agree with that, but I think there's a further problem: a lot of the people practicing agile are consultant developers. They take on a project, apply their "agile methodology", and build some software. As the project goes on and begins losing its luster, the contract ends, and the consultants are on to the next Shiny Thing. With this kind of environment, people don't have to face the long term consequences of their technical decisions. (I think this is also why there is so much "what's cool this week" churn in the Rails world.) I would like to see an agile methodology come out of a successful product team, that applies it for years.