I went to the Denver Agile conference a few months back and I mentioned to my boss that I felt the way they were presenting was very cultish. Instead of saying: if you follow this practice it has these benefits, I just felt the entire conference was a presentation on dogmatic adherence for the sake of holistic enlightenment. You must do this or condemn you entire project to the ninth level of programmer hell. If I wanted dogma I would go to church. I came here for a logical application of a standardized practices based on axioms not holistic bullshit.