Out of various dictionary meanings of lean, I choose to use "not fatty or lacking excess flesh". In product management, it could mean delivering small quantities of value with every release, and delivering it right.
Agile means quick and alert, characterized by ease of movement. It focuses on delivering values quickly, and adapting to change.
Agile is one of the proposed ways to develop product releases to utilize learnings fom lean manufacturing paradigm, however it focusses too tightly on development and not on overall lifecycle.
Even in development teams, as it has been acknowledged, "Agile" has been misunderstood, and mis-implemented, because most of the people just got into "agile" because they heard about it in a conference, or somewhere else. The basis of agile was not understood, it is just followed as a rule book of product development. Agile is thought of as a way of reducing buerocratic documentation and relaxing stringent discipline of current practices, and shifting blame of delayed product release to stakeholders.
That's why I tend to stay away from using word "agile", and focus on principles of "lean manufacturing", which have been proven to bring visibility amongst everyone aboard, emphasize on regular communication, enhance disciplined collaboration, and make successful products time and again.
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