According to alistapart:

 Agile is here to stay. The economic difficulties of the past months have finally put waterfall out of its misery; now more than ever, long requirements phases and vaporous up-front documentation aren’t acceptable. Software must be visible and valuable from the start.

I can see exactly where they’re coming from, but it still scares the sh*t out of me - Agile makes sense, but it can still lead to chaos. But then I’ve seen traditional projects run amok too.

The fundamental principles of Agile ring true - get stuck in early, prototype, little iterative cycles, get everyone involved and commenting - but I fear the discipline required for ’someone’ to keep an eye on the big picture and finally manage to complete the last iterations to ‘finish’ is a rare commodity.

But I do agree that the future is (probably) Agile.