A very nice article, although I do not agree with everything in there. I guess you just can not be successful just by copying what others did. Especially not wh

A very nice article, although I do not agree with everything in there. I guess you just can not be successful just by copying what others did. Especially not when you do not understand why you should do it or how it contributed to their success. Somewhat offtopic: I do not work in the startup scene, but I have experience something similar a couple of times when traditional companies try to do agile. They see something that works very well for somebody, bring in a consultant (hopefully!) and start doing everything she says. Without really understanding it. But it's just rituals then, and the rituals alone don't work. That's called "cargo cult" or "scrum but" sometimes, though I have my problems with those words too (http://davidtanzer.net/scrum_but http://davidtanzer.net/scrum_but)...