Do popular methodologies suffer from popularity? Is the opportunity to turn the methodology into a brittle, monolithic and successful enterprise perhaps just to

Do popular methodologies suffer from popularity? Is the opportunity to turn the methodology into a brittle, monolithic and successful enterprise perhaps just too tempting? Before you know it, the high principles and ideals on which the methodology was founded are now helmed by corporate sponsors at HP, Lockheed and Capital One. Rust gathers, staleness sets in, since the point of the methodology is no longer substantial or revolutionary improvement, but simply preservation and perpetuation.