Cargo Cult

I find Cargo Cults really interesting, had read about them years back but was reminded last year when was working as part of an Agile team, and the fact that many of our practises were initially 'cargo cult' Agile, was pointed out to me.

Relevant from last week: http://www.betabeat.com/2011/09/02/clone-wars-rise-of-the-fa...

“It’s this whole cargo cult thing, where people imitate the things you see on the surface. Foursquare does badges and they did them really well. And then all of a sudden everyone was like, ‘I want to add badges to my startup!’”

Also the title of a 2009 album from prog rock band 7BZH http://7bzh.com

From my experience, there are so many cargo cult developers, it's funny that our industry gets anything done ;-)

seems like a logical thing to do. what would you do if you see E.T do something and then something happened, you would try to immitate it. ofcourse.