People is more important than everything

I’m more and more convinced about this: “people is more important than everything”. For many years in the software industry we tought to have found the good method for successfull software development, always searching for processes, practices, framework… but did these practices and methods provide the expected results? Today the risk is that agile will be another of such methods that didn’t bring the expected results if we don’t understand what “agile” is.

I see a situation in which many people wants to use “agile” and start to do it, but what I see in reality is the fall of agile: “fragile”, “wagile”, “srum-buts”… so the question is:  what “agile” really means?
My passion for agile comes from the idea that the interactions between people are more important than processes, that people are the key factor in the software success. Attendind people’s need and the close collaboration among people can bring back the enjoyment to developing successful software. The agile manifesto defines what agile is, we can find in it the same idea:

“indivuals and interactions between process and tools”
“customer collaboration over contract negotiation”
“Build projects around motivated individuals. Give them the environment and support they need, and trust them to get the job done.“
“The most efficient and effective method of conveying information to and within a development team is face-to-face conversation.“

Agile is not doing it but “being agile”… for that we should start focusing more on people.