Scott Bellware attacks Microsoft's cluelessness of modern development methodologies and tools. By talking about the 3 (in?)famous typecasts (Mort, Elvis & Einstein personas) used by Microsoft to model developers.

While I agree with a lot of the points Scott makes I think that (unfortunately) there are individuals and organizations that are suitable for to the Mort-Elvis-Einstein approach -  Where people are not as smart or competent as Scott is and can't handle agility. Also there are situations  where agility cannot be practiced -e.g.  clients insist on fixed price projects and waterfall-ish milestones where, against our better judgment, we were forced to do a lot of up-front planning (that had to be reworked later…), safety-critical system etc.

I much prefer the direction Scott took in an earlier post where he talked about a missing persona - Hugo the Agilist. I think Microsoft will be making a grave mistake if they will not pay attention to the needs of the growing community of developers that prefer agile methods and practices.