Most "normal" people will quickly get overwhelmed by all the techno babble associated with Agile. Scrum? TDD? eXtreme Programming? CI? Crystal? Lean? What is all this mess? Certainly one of these things is emerging as the single best method for beginners, right? 

Well, the answer is "all of them are good" and "none of them is best". To better understand why this is, and how to get started, read the Agile articles in the first 2009 issue of the ISSIG Review: http://www.pmi-issig.org/Documents/ISSIGReview/tabid/219/DMXModule/734/Command/Core_Download/Default.aspx?EntryId=1068