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I don't think that you know agile that well. If you define agile as "hacks" then it's no surprise that only hacks will match your definition of agile.

"requirements for a (short) release cycle" is a good description for a scrum sprint backlog. Scrum or agile does not say that you can't have "Specs, designs, and dot releases" in some form if you need them.

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I use these specific definitions for agile as they are the ones that come up as real differentiators in practice. Of course Agile by itself is virtually a meaningless term that often simply means, "we're going to release more often", but really doesn't say anything about the SLC per se.

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