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### An iterative process
If I had a quarter for every time I heard some stakeholder declare “We’re trying to be more agile,” I’d be orbiting the earth in my private spacecraft instead of writing this book.

Wanting to be more agile is commendable. But _agile_ is a loaded term, with big differences between capital-A Agile and lowercase-a agile. Capital-A Agile is a specific methodology for software development, equipped with a [manifesto](http://www.agilemanifesto.org/) and accompanying frameworks like [Scrum](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrum_%28software_development%29) and [Lean](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lean_software_development).
Wanting to be more agile is commendable. But _agile_ is a loaded term, with big differences between capital-A Agile and lowercase-a agile. Capital-A Agile is a specific methodology for software development, equipped with a [manifesto](https://agilemanifesto.org/) and accompanying frameworks like [Scrum](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrum_%28software_development%29) and [Lean](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lean_software_development).

Lowercase-a agile is more of an informal desire to create an efficient process. This desire may certainly involve adopting general [principles](http://www.agilemanifesto.org/principles.html) from capital-A Agile, but it may not involve adopting the Agile process in its entirety. Project manager Brett Harned explains:

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