Here's an all too typical story in SD Times - writer Jennifer deJong lets a Forrester analyst say something utterly absurd:

“In the early days of agile, only heretics used tools,” said Liz Barnett, a Forrester analyst who follows agile development. But that is no longer true.

Umm - XP, which is where the entire agile movement comes from, was developed by Kent Beck and the C3 team. Hmm - what were they using on that project? Smalltalk (VisualWorks, specifically). Last time I looked, VisualWorks is a tool filled environment.

How frelling hard would it be for a journalist or analyst to do some minimal research? Is typing into the Google box too hard for these people?