The problem is that the manifesto doesn't give you a concrete way of doing things; Scrum does, and it can be really as simple as this article says. Basically,

The problem is that the manifesto doesn't give you a concrete way of doing things; Scrum does, and it can be really as simple as this article says. Basically, the article is a backlash to things like http://programming-motherfucker.com/ http://programming-motherfucker.com/ , which is a backlash to people doing Scrum, XP, etc. so wrong that it seems no better than the beaurocratic monstrosities that the agile manifesto was a backlash to.