Jim,

A couple of questions: First, can you give the 25 word summary of "agile management" for those of us who don't know the lingo? Second, a similar request for "waterfall methodology"?

My other thought has to do with the aptness of the metaphor of voters choosing a spec or a feature set. I think that vastly overrates the cognitive and conceptual involvement of the mass of the electorate. For the majority of our generally anti-intellectual land Democrat v Republican is, arguably, more akin to Coke v Pepsi than to anything as legitimate as "feature set A" versus "feature set B". I _think_ your post is making a similar critique of thoughts expressed by McKenna.

And, not for nothing, but could it be deemed a little disingenuous to say the GOP is on the ropes because the public agenda has changed when there is a colorable alternative description which says the GOP is on the ropes because the public is beginning to suspect they were sold a pig in a poke when they bought the line about WMDs in Iraq and other Big GOP Lies(tm)?