On a small point of order, I'm slightly worried that you might have read "idealogues" as a typo for "ideologies" - very much not the case! I very much meant ide

On a small point of order, I'm slightly worried that you might have read "idealogues" as a typo for "ideologies" - very much not the case! I very much meant idealogues. I don't take much issue with the underlying ideas of the Agile manifesto - it's the ritualisation and thoughtlessness that it can lead to that irks me. The "anti Agile manifesto", many though its faults are, rings true in a lot of places, to my mind: "backlogs are really just to do lists" seems pretty much inarguable, for one.