> Many proponents of these methods have a religiosity about them. Guilty as charged. > Their method works; if you don’t believe this you are misguided, misinf

> Many proponents of these methods have a religiosity about them. Guilty as charged. > Their method works; if you don’t believe this you are misguided, misinformed, or just antagonistic Dismissing anyone's experiences as false, whether directly or by necessary implication, is bound to create a fair amount of ill-will. I get lectured down to on Hacker News a lot by people who've had a bad time with scrum, or TDD, or pairing, or some version of these that they can imagine themselves disliking. It's galling for everybody: here I am, telling them that I have experienced these things very differently. Here they are, telling me they have experienced these things very differently. Everyone subconsciously concludes that the other party is essentially calling them a liar and it kinda goes downhill from there.