Agile Sunset?

Based only on my own observations, I think capital-A Agile is on the wane. When mega-consultancies have Agile practices, it's pretty clear that Agile is mainstream, in whatever extraordinarily diluted form it may take. We are now in the long tail of the Agile hype-cycle where Agile has almost become a mandatory label on any project management or software development process. Long live "Agile - * ".

I think a lot of useful lessons (that will actually stick) have come out of this extreme pendulum swing, though. Many have realized that waterfall is just a death-march but, they have also realized there is no Agile Faerie Dust, either. Plus, there is not one methodology to rule them all.

Agile principles certainly have an ongoing role to play but, there is no single recipe. Realizing that may be the biggest benefit of all.

(This is a photo I took of a sunset at Bellingham Bay, several years ago.)