The Agile Manifesto itself is actually a fantastic set of tenets. Unfortunately most people I've talked to who are trying to push 'agile' have neither read it,

The Agile Manifesto itself is actually a fantastic set of tenets. Unfortunately most people I've talked to who are trying to push 'agile' have neither read it, or have enough experience in software development or projects to understand why it's so insightful. They do love to straw man waterfall though.