Complexity Sells Better

Adopting a new framework in a large team is a tough job. 
If it is being enforced/pushed from the top, it is quite likely that it will become a regimental way of working and will just result in some cargo cult practices.

For organizations, following a certain framework may not produce the expected business results.
But for many Sr Managers, it surely acts as a safety net.
Particularly if that framework certification is costly.

When you are expected to *follow* a framework or a transformation Guru or both, you are relieved from using your own judgment, relieved from making your own observations and relieved from taking responsibility for your own actions.

No wonder you see hundreds of discussions/advice in LI forums, where you can read these words…  "as per XYZ guide, you should be doing so-and-so things; or else you are not XYZ compliant".  Clearly, the entire focus here is on being "XYZ" compliant; not on boosting Value Delivery to market.

You may not believe this but there is actually a framework, that even tells you how many *Hours* of a meeting we should have to plan the next 10 weeks of work AND at what time we should take a *lunch break* during that meeting.
And all this minute-level planning for the next two and half months duration in the name of being agile.
This framework certification is selling pretty well even though it is damn costly.
Maybe it is selling well because it is costly.
It also comes with a detailed & complicated-looking infographics and its own set of buzzwords. Which is a bonus. 

40 years back, they used to say  “Nobody ever got fired for choosing IBM”.
The same "safety net” mindset plays when a mid or large organization tries to follow some "A"gile framework in a verbatim manner like a doctor's prescription.  

The more the cost of adopting that framework, the more costly the certification, the more elaborate & convoluted infographics and diagrams of that framework, and the more complex rituals of that framework, the decision-takers of these mid/large organizations feel safer.  

As Edsger Dijkstra famously said... "Complexity sells better”