On the one hand, I agree.
On the other hand, like a lot of other good ideas, the agile community has claimed this. A quick google will show that many claim it is a "core agile idea."
On the other hand, like a lot of other good ideas, the agile community has claimed this. A quick google will show that many claim it is a "core agile idea."
But, again, that was being done in many organizations (and for sure, in most successful chip companies) well before anything was ever labeled agile.
Which is what, honestly, makes the term essentially meaningless.
To the extent that parts of agile are and have always been "best practices" we already had a term for those.