Agile methodologies. Is it a by-product of mind control techniques?

Question

The more I read about contemporary methods combining scrum, tdd and xp, the more I feel like I already seen the methods.

I am not arguing that agile approach is much more progressive than older rigid structures like waterfall, what I am saying is that it seems to me that agile methodologies are ideal to be used as a nest for a brainwashing business.

I read few articles which kept referring to authors which I checked afterwards and they call themselves - coaches, trainers (usual thing when NLP specialists are involved) with no apparent software development history.

Also I met a guy who is a scrum faciltator (term often used in relation to brainwashing) in a high profile company. I talked to him less than 5 min but I got complete feeling that he is either on drugs or he has been programmed by a powerful NLP specialist. The way to talk and his body movements witnessed he is not an average normal person (in terms of normal distribution :))...

Please dont get me wrong. I am not a fun of conspiracy theories. But I witnessed work of a professional who tried to invade a commercial firm and actually went half way through to very top in just 3 weeks.

For now I rather concerned that psycho manipulators are now invading IT industry through the convenient door of agile techniques.

Anyone has the same feeling/thoughts?

Answer 1

I dunno... Agile is a pretty effective way of getting "results". Some terms, like "facilitator", or "SCRUM master", are just titles. The important thing is what that person's job is, and how effective they are at doing it.

What exactly made you feel like this Scrum facilitator may have been programmed? Keep in mind, it has been my experience that people in positions like Scrum facilitating tend to just have really big egos...