"In any case, the guy said they don't do agile. I am really loathe to try to go in and discover a way in which it could be interpreted as agile after the fact"

"In any case, the guy said they don't do agile. I am really loathe to try to go in and discover a way in which it could be interpreted as agile after the fact" Amen! Classifing any project with a practice passing resemblance to some "agile" practice as an "agile project " just leads to the twinned "all successful projects were really doing agile whether they knew it or not" and the "any failed agile project didn't do "proper" agile, even if they said they were" fallacies. This is especially weird since "agile" really didn't invent anything (except maybe rigid TDD). It just packaged some "best practices" into one label. Short iterations was a known to be effective practice well before the advent of agile.