" "Agile" -- the term is just too slippery". Well you can point to the manifesto. A statement of 4 core values. That is all it really is. I agree with you on

" "Agile" -- the term is just too slippery". Well you can point to the manifesto. A statement of 4 core values. That is all it really is. I agree with you on the "Agile adoption sucks" bit. I think the coders and even managers have abandoned that crowd long ago, leaving the conferences full of coaches and consultants free to waffle on about fluffy ways to communicate and argue about whether the complexity model is better than the systems model or something. It has been hijacked, and it is now a racket.