It never ceases to amaze me how we take good ideas and screw them up. It also amazes me how many people are pissed about agile. I blogged about this a year or t

It never ceases to amaze me how we take good ideas and screw them up. It also amazes me how many people are pissed about agile. I blogged about this a year or two ago, and got something like 50K visits (shameless plug for those who haven't read the article: http://www.whattofix.com/blog/archives/2010/09/agile-ruined-my.php http://www.whattofix.com/blog/archives/2010/09/agile-ruined-...? ) Just to be a bit of a contrarian, there's a difference between what something means on paper, how it's practiced, and what people think it means. We get into trouble when we confuse this.