TL;DR: using $thing for the sake of $thing is just elevated cargo culting. He didn’t worry about what the Agile Alliance said to do, he made the solution h

TL;DR: using $thing for the sake of $thing is just elevated cargo culting. He didn’t worry about what the Agile Alliance said to do, he made the solution his own, and he excelled. In other words, know what your problem is and solve that, instead of trying to force your problem into a favored solution.