If capital-A “Agile” ever ends, it will be replaced by something with a different name that takes exactly the same form. How do I know? Because I’m old enough to remember before there was capital-A “Agile”, and the original XP/Agile manifesto came along and within a few years was bastardized into exactly what came before it: the expectation that with enough meetings and unreasonable enough demands, software development could be a perfectly predictable, cookie-cutter endeavor, as uneventful as manufacturing sheet metal.