I can't stand it if somebody tries to push a "golden hammer" as the one and only methodology or tool or an approach for all problems in the IT industry.
I used to work with people argueing all the basic solutions have to come from one big name in the industry since it`s clear he will deliver the best possible thing out of the box - he is investing millions of dollars in research and quasi raising generations of IT specialists up from the school. Why look for alternatives? It will work.
Mostly, it doesn't. It's a myth and rubbish. And those alternatives argueing to be the very solution for all the problems coming from dogmatic dealing with a thing themself don't work - if used dogmatically. Example needed? OK: the watterfall is dead, and dogmatically using it will kill a project. Yeah, so Scrum will heal it, right? Not automatically: if you use it dogmatically without adapting it to your project and enterprise you will fail as well.
If you are dogmatic or even religious about a vendor and his creations or about an approach you will be treading water without progress and without a way to find the best possible solution - even the pragmatic one. One that works and doesn't do much more than it should, one that is cost-contious, one that succeeds. The only situation where you could be dogmatic about a vendor is working for him. The only situation where you might be dogmatic about an approach is to live from emoluments for a book about it. Or so...
Be dogmatic about the need for success, not about the means. Pick out whatever contributes to the success, not to a hypothetical allround wonder from the glossy magazines. Always have a built-in filter and X-ray vision on golden hammers and dogmatic evangilists. Don't trust unproved things before you have seen them working with you own eyeballs. Adapt alternatives but also filtering them as well.
Be pragmatic, not dogmatic.
