The Agile stuff ain't new at all. I worked in a CSC team in the Nineties practicing some techniques that were recognizably 'Agile'. The only difference was that we used Big sheets of paper stuck on the walls with Blu-tac rather than post-its and called the meeting 'shirtsleeve meetings'. I was in the Data Architecture team and we insisted on getting the data architecture planned out in its entirety before the coding started. It was the only part of the project that got finished, all beautifully mapped out in ERwin.