Dave Thomas: Agile as an Adjective, Not an Industry

Offered in nearly every Agile or Scrum complaint thread as the authoritative take on what agile was meant to be versus what it became.

Dave Thomas, a co-author of the Agile Manifesto, argues at GOTO Amsterdam 2015 that Agile as a branded industry has lost its meaning. He says agile is an adjective, not a noun, and urges developers to reclaim agility.