I firmly believe that the software development movement -- and now business movement -- known as "agile" is a mindset and culture, not a set of tools and processes (see this related post). Agile coach Michael Sahota is writing a set of articles about agile and culture that are worth a look. I summarized my thoughts in a comment on...

I want to dispel the myth that responsibility is an inherent personality characteristic. Responsibility is learnable -- my client’s results prove it over and over again. With the advances of the last twenty-five years responsibility is a directly observable, learnable, and teachable mental process anyone can understand and master. When leaders treat responsibility as a personality trait (or flaw), then...