I just came across this nugget on Ward's Wiki that is all too true of what I see many so-called "Agile" people do today:

     A dialog between two CowOrkers:

     A: Is that the new IDE?

     B: This is it!

     A: Man I grew up with the DaddyWarbucks MegaEditor, ever since Version 4. Is this the one with support for Agile programming?

    B: Yeah. Let me see. Okay, I have to click here to register the tests, right?

    A: I want to write a three line test and hit Go. Will it figure that out?

    B: I need to "deploy" the tests first. What's our deployment server's address?

    A: Why does it need to know that?

     B: I need to register a work ticket with our ChangeRequestControlSystem first. Then I get the structure of the test,      based on our repository. This is so the program can fork the codebase each time we get a RedBar.

    A: Oookay.

    B: Our boss said we're bringing in a team of specialists to set up the build servers, so each one can run a different sub-    team's fork. We are targeting the CapabilityMaturityModelIntegration Level 3 with this roll-out, and the boss let us know it's kind of important we don't screw anything up until they get here.

    A: I feel more Agile by the minute. What do we do until they get here?

    B: We still know how to use the debugger.

Hmm, know a certain product this suggests?

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