Agile is great. Scrum is OK. Know the difference.

“The soul who sins is the one who will die. A son will not bear the iniquity of the father, and a father will not bear the iniquity of the son. ” Ezekiel 18:20. Image: “Separation of Light from Darkness” by Michaelangelo/Wikimedia Commons

Agile software creation is pretty great. If you don’t think so, it might be because you’ve been introduced to the concept in a confusing way. Or at least that’s what I’ve come to believe based on my day to day discussions with others in the software world.

The problem is that many explanations of the concept fail to distinguish between Agile and Agile-related frameworks (like…