Software Best Practices

This reminds me of the article published years ago about the "CMM Immaturity Model" that went from Level 0 to Level -2. I agree that just paying lip service to a set of practices without even trying to ape them is even worse than what I described in "Cargo Cult Software Engineering."...

I don't think the original poster was talking about people aping XP in a Cargo Cult style. Rather the lip service is just that. They're not even pretending to follow the practices. They're just adopting the name. However, I think exactly the same could be said for CMM in many cases. And that's...