[gtycomb]

> What is it about software development that keeps on attracting these "methodologies"?

Here is one data point for you from personal experience. A few months after got started at a US company operating in about 30 countries (primary business is manufacturing in the Casino and gaming industry) the word came from the CIO that I implement Six Sigma as part of the enterprise architecture activity that I headed. I countered that neither software engineers nor the IT architects and admins worked in the Six Sigma way and wondered at the meeting where this whole idea came from. I was told this was what the Chief Operating Officer and/or VP of Finance wanted to implement "across the company". Such things happen in this world we live in.