We find that whole communities suddenly fix their minds upon one object, and go mad in its pursuit; that millions of people become simultaneously impressed with one delusion, and run after it, till their attention is caught by some new folly more captivating than the first. - Charles Mackey – 1852, (Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds)
This condition is common in our project management domain, especially the software project management domain. And most prevalent in the #NoEstimates community.
Without a set of immutable principles (Managerial Finance, Microeconomics of Software Development, and Probabilistic Decision Theory) on which to assess any cockamamie idea that comes along, uninformed followers take up the cause to spread the nonsense to other, less informed then they are, that some quick fix can be found to problems that have eluded corrective or preventive actions for decades due to willful ignorance of the principles of managing other people's money in the presence of uncertainty.
