> Silicon Valley engineering practices can look very non-Agile to a lot people from traditional companies that are doing Agile. This is of course because the t

> Silicon Valley engineering practices can look very non-Agile to a lot people from traditional companies that are doing Agile. This is of course because the thing that traditional companies call "Agile" is really just the same business-as-usual top-down manager-controlled garbage software process they've always used but with the cool-sounding name "Agile" slapped on it. Whereas what SV companies do is much closer to what Agile is really about, regardless of what they call it.