With a discussion on Agile Modeling forum about organizations seeming to have issues with properly applying agile ideas, I proposed the following:

agile is:

• more a state of mind, than a set of steps
• a technique designed to reduce the gap in time between doing something

  on the project and seeing the result

• a way to better shepherd your resources to meet your goals
• a philosophy that requires more — not less — use of gray matter at

  every step of the way

agile modeling, agile processes, agile coding… they all fit in there

somewhere

here is a *null* hypothesis. let’s see if we can disprove it:

“agile requires being smarter than average. therefore, agile only

succeeds in projects that have people that are smarter and more

experienced than the average developer/business. ”