Is Agile a Methodology?

Takeshi Yoshida
2 min readAug 31, 2023

Question: would you agree with me, along with many other agile practitioners, that agile* is not a methodology?

Indeed, agile does use methods and processes, but is itself a methodology?

The easy answer is that you can’t do agile in a step-by-step, prescriptive way. In the same token, agile makes use of processes and it is process driven, but it is itself not a process.

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Takeshi Yoshida

Chief Coach, Agile Organization Development (agile-od.com) — we are a tribe of change, transformation, innovation experts