• The daily scrum is about micro-managing the team’s daily work plans and making sure that everyone is doing what they say they’ll do.
• Continuous integration is put in place so that the minute some developer screws up and breaks a build, it becomes known.
• Pair programming is about making sure that programmers don’t lose focus, don’t goldplate, don’t work on only the fun stuff, and that they clean things up.

Ah, but who is it that is doing this micromanagement?

It’s the team.

Yes, agile is about micromanagment, but it’s about the team micromanaging themselves and for their own benefit.