Yes. I think they are related to the "scrumdamentalists" who I have written about in the past as well.
See -- The Holy Scrum War - http://blog.aha.io/index.php/the-holy-scrum-war/
See -- The Holy Scrum War - http://blog.aha.io/index.php/the-holy-scrum-war/
If you have good teams basically all you need is a thin layer of process that prevents total chaos, kanban is a good fit for that, but most teams implement kanban in a cargo cult manner.
I've worked on sales driven teams where I fundamentally trusted the sales guy because when he said if you make feature X I can sell it for $Y dollars and we made bank doing that.
Conversely I've worked on teams where everyone was trying to avoid being fired and would only make decisions that were defensible, eg. company X is doing Y so lets do Y, resulting in the usual follow the leader failure.