We were discussing agile today and I came up with something that I thought might be worth sharing with others.

Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
Working software over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Responding to change over following a plan

And I was saying to some of the folks on my team that it seems as if we’re getting right side agile and not left side.  While lots of firms these days are calling themselves agile they’re still very much on the right side of that list. As someone put it to me, lots of places are doing waterfall with daily stand ups and two week sprints.

So maybe we need to start calling out our managers and our VP’s on right side agile and tell them that we favor the left side and we want them to favor it too.