On a small point of order, I&#x27;m slightly worried that you might have read &quot;idealogues&quot; as a typo for &quot;ideologies&quot; - very much not the case! I very much meant ideal<i>ogues</i>.<p>I don&#x27;t take much issue with the underlying ideas of the Agile manifesto - it&#x27;s the ritualisation and thoughtlessness that it can lead to that irks me. The &quot;anti Agile manifesto&quot;, many though its faults are, rings true in a lot of places, to my mind: &quot;backlogs are really just to do lists&quot; seems pretty much inarguable, for one.