Keep The Baby
Jim Webber posts about his lack of belief in Agile. He calls himself an Agile atheist.
From Jim:
I am not agile because I don’t believe in the agile religion and I don’t accept its dogma. I like the engineering and planning practices that agile teams use - in the same way that I like people who do nice things (even when they do it because of fear of divine retribution).
Even if you don’t believe in Agile, that doesn’t mean you don’t believe in some (or all) of the techniques that come along with the Agile dogma. Some may think we are throwing out the baby with the bath water when we talk about pliant development or post-agilism, but they are mistaken. We are well aware that the techniques espoused by Agilists do work in some cases. They just don’t work in all cases and sometimes not as nicely as some would have you believe. So let me be clear. We have to be careful not to through out the techniques while attempting to rid ourselves of the dogma. Keep the baby, syphon off the bath water.