Adopting Agile often involves creating special process teams and hiring Methodology (with a big M) consultants to implement and enforce Agile Best Practices. Entire industries have grown up around accreditation, auditing, and support of specific Agile methods. So is this approach really helping you, or might it in fact be working against your organization?

Dan argues that best practices and are useful only up to a point, and that rigidly enforcing them is counter to the values of Agile and will eventually drive away your best people. He looks at the motivations behind Agile initiatives and introduces the Dreyfus model of skills acquisition to explore how effective best practices really are.