Smarting at the 'agile' buzzword deluge

Given that JAOO was where the whole agile movement was formally launched, it is only fair that a flurry of new software development terms are unleashed this week. The latest, Smart ( described on the tin as "beyond agile") was covered in the keynote by Ivar Jacobson ( as in 'The') who described the thinking behind it. Basically, the idea is not to rely on tacit knowledge as agile processes stress because clearly that doesn't scale. So Smart processes aim to focus on having as big a process as necessary but by improving delivery such that only a relevant and lightweight version is delivered to the user as needed. This is done by embedding this logic in so called "intelligent agents" that somehow make this possible. Sounds pretty good in theory but I'm afraid that's all the 1 hour keynote allowed so it's hard to assess how much of this is actually deliverable in practice today. Jacobson has a company (Jaczone) who has a product called Waypointer which helps companies implement this - apparently it has been very well received by India based outsourcers looking for something beyond CMMI that helps them build better software and not just 'better' processes. definitely something. Also, he mentioned that in his experience, offshore companies and specifically the ones based out of India are the group keenest to adopt agile methods.
The main issue with these things remains the real world readiness of the concepts as productive,workable tools and that I found hard to guage as whilst all of the content was all common sense , it was very abstract - a specific case study of where this is actually being used would have helped. The flood of new 'agile' terms promises to assume Katrina-esque proportions here as we are shortly to be hit by yet another - 'Lean' software development on which more later..