The point of that article is that you need to be self reflective and open to change.

I'll post it here again, without any of the other distracting things he said about verbs and so on. Just take a moment to think about what these steps actually mean:

    - Find out where you are
    - Take a small step towards your goal
    - Adjust your understanding based on what you learned
    - Repeat

If you want to work as effectively as you can, you should actively change your process constantly based on reflecting on past performance against your goals.

...if you don't care, or can't be bothered, well, that's fine too (self reflection isn't easy); just realize that your own set of pedantic dogmatic rules is no better than any other Agile process set.