Agile focuses on the continuous improvement of not just the software, but the process. They tried to be specifically not too verbose, as dedication to one size and shape of process that does not fit all is precisely what they were against. Agile can be thought of as a meta-process. It's an attitude and a process for improving your process. Think kaizen for your software development team. It's about the tight feedback loop about what's working, what's not working, and what can be improved.
Beyond that, 10 people might find that the processes they've refined from Agile really do differ. That might be because of differing (and broken) application of Agile itself, which is a common claim. It might be, though, that continuous improvement of process has lead different teams in different directions that function well or well enough for those teams.
Re:Agile and the long crisis of software
by throwaway6532 on Monday May 09, 2022 @10:29PM
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Precisely.
You could replace the entire thing with "shorter feedback loops" and it would be significantly more meaningful.
If you ask 10 people what agile "really" means you'll get 10 different answers, many quite incompatible with each other.