This came through on the Agile Project Management group today from Mike Beedle of Scrum fame. A nice summary of how we got the “agile“ moniker and a few things to think about.

> Actually, "Agility" (and especially "Business Agility")
> pre-dates XP, etc.

Yes, it does.  In fact, the word "agile", as in "agile development"
was chosen because it was thought to be a good "sales" word among
upper management -- something managers could understand and
associate with it as something cool but without any
connotations of failure.

If you recall, there was a "Business Agility" wave circa (95-97),
that "never failed"..