Just relay this post firstly noticed by a few colleauges ...

Anything more can add into The Dead Horse Theroy? Of course - to adopt agile methodologies ...

For some technologies that come to mind: deny it is dead and push it from behind believing it can only get better and that the smell will go away.

Just because consultants and book peddlers do their best to ruin it, doesn't mean agile should die. Non-tech people still need educating in the basic tenants of agile :)

Agreed +Casper Casper, vendors and bad consultancies have ruined what Agile is about (just like they ruined what could have been a revolution with SOA).  However, I'm leaning towards agreeing with Pragmatic Dave that we should kill off Agile and birth Agility because it's harder to abuse, Agility is about what you are/do not what product you use, or process you follow.  As +Dean Budd hammered at me once "Are you quickly able to meet the business need with quality outcomes?"  But vendors can't lock stupid people into ridiculous contracts make a profit on a simple statement like that ;)

This cartoon has always been funny... even 25 years later.

Agile is a culture, not a set of practices. Alan Kay said that programming today has become a pop culture.

Another reference that Agile has already being corrupted - http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/the-corruption-of-agile/240166698

Big five +Oleg Kiorsak 

I use the lower case agile to describe this.
Capitalised Agile is the bad one ;)

What, like "The manifesto which must not be named"? That "aGiLe" (or "AgIlE")

Nah, as in proper noun being an official codified system. Whereas the word agile is a general concept that can be applied to writing software.

Dead horse theory and Agile

Ways to remediate failed projects (aka dead horses):

. Buy a stronger whip.
. Change riders.
. Say things like, “This is the way we have always ridden this horse.”
. Appoint a committee to study the horse.
. Arrange to visit other sites to see how they ride dead horses.
. Increase the standards to ride dead horses.
. Appoint a tiger team to revive the dead horse.
. Create training to increase riding ability.
. Compare the state of dead horses in today’s environment.
. Change the requirements declaring that “This horse is not dead.”
. Hire contractors to ride the dead horse.
. Harness several dead horses together for increased speed.
. Declare that “No horse is too dead to beat.”
. Provide additional funding to increase the horse’s performance.
. Do a Cost Analysis study to see if contractors can ride it cheaper.
. Purchase a product to make dead horses run faster.
. Declare the horse is “better, faster and cheaper” dead.
. Form a quality circle to find uses for dead horses.
. Revisit the performance requirements for horses.
. Say this horse was procured with cost as an independent variable.
. Promote the dead horse to a supervisory position.
. Outsource the dead horse to a low-cost country.
. Try switching to Agile ….
. When that doesn’t work, Try switching to Lean

http://agilemindstorm.com/2011/06/20/dead-horse-and-agile/