I've seen Agile work, except it wasn't called Agile, and it was before Agile existed. At a small game studio, you may have one guy that knows the hardware real

I've seen Agile work, except it wasn't called Agile, and it was before Agile existed. At a small game studio, you may have one guy that knows the hardware really well at a low level, but not the engine or how it's used, but the engine developer does. When you put these two guys in a room together, they will crank out something beautiful in an amazing amount of time, something neither of them could have accomplished alone. That's agile. Not whatever crap the current mantra is. The manifesto gets this, but it never should have been made into a process.