How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg
- Abraham Lincoln
The notion that we can rename things and then assume they are the same doesn't work, just like Lincoln said. The notion of measuring progress with the passage of time and calling it Earned Value, doesn't mean we're doing Earned Value.
Doing Agile without doing Scrum, XP, Crystal, or DSDM is not doing agile.