Understand that you can't rush good cooking, you can't rush babies out, and you can't rush software development.

"In a recent blog entry Steve Yegge, a developer at Google, writes a fascinating account of life at possibly the coolest development organization in the world. Steve lays out some of the software development practices that make Google work. Go on, say you are not even a little bit jealous. ;-)"From the article:

• Developers can switch teams and/or projects any time they want, no questions asked; just say the word and the movers will show up the next day to put you in your new office with your new team.
• There aren't very many meetings. I'd say an average developer attends perhaps 3 meetings a week.
• Google has a philosophy of not ever telling developers what to work on, and they take it pretty seriously.
• Google tends not to pre-announce. They really do understand that you can't rush good cooking, you can't rush babies out, and you can't rush software development.

Yegge also does a fine job of skewering what the author calls "Bad Agile."


Source:http://steve-yegge.blogspot.sg/2006/09/good-agile-bad-agile_27.html