Thank you, my experience has been same, and I could have not said this better. I'd like to add that anyone in this position should do exactly what you and I di

Thank you, my experience has been same, and I could have not said this better. I'd like to add that anyone in this position should do exactly what you and I did, and quit. Time is valuable. Leave them to find out the error of their ways by themselves if they're unwilling to listen. They'll think you're wrong. You'll think they're wrong. Fine. Let the free market work it out. I now work as a contracter elsewhere, solving more worthy and interesting problems, and with wonderful coworkers. Our methodology adapts as required to the problems we are trying to solve. We're incredibly productive and love our jobs, because we think about the product we're trying to create and not about following arbitrary rules in lockstep. The way to overcome incompetence isn't to fight it but leapfrog it entirely.