Superficially the google term you're looking for is "cargo cult" But how to fix cargo cult depends on the root cause and there are many: 1) Authoritarianism,

Superficially the google term you're looking for is "cargo cult" But how to fix cargo cult depends on the root cause and there are many: 1) Authoritarianism, my boss said read this book, this book said XYZ, therefore XYZ is true. How could the book possibly be wrong? Or for book, insert rockstar ninja consultant or training class or whatever. 2) Religious belief, sure none of this makes logical sense but if you have blind faith and are not one of those apostates, it'll work just fine. Just relax and perform the ritual. 3) Deep game, where we actually run on anarchy or waterfall but someone needs XYZ on their resume so superficially we've skinned it as XYZ. Dig enough and you'll find what really runs the place is something else. 4) Blame games, a large part of management is how blame is distributed, not just distributing work, and when a subgroup who thinks they're agile-ing to distribute work comes in contact with a group using agile mostly to distribute blame or to stall for time or just to goof off on company time, its kinda like matter-antimatter.