The case for thinking for yourself (Score 0)

Maybe you follow the commandments of XP to the letter, maybe you spend countless hours in waterfall meetings ... regardless, I think considering XP, if nothing else, makes software development's collective weaknesses more apparent. I'm not saying that XP solves those problems. Instead, it just throws them into a sharper relief.

And in the sense that XP *does* propose a solution ... well ... my advice (coming from a relatively competent programmer and project manager) is learn to think for yourself and to constructively pressure your management for the latitude to experiment.

XP makes some good points ... but to be fair, I've felt like a walking buzz word whenever I've attempted to pitch and/or defend it. If I could change one thing about it ... I'd change the name. What's next ... Pimp my Test Harness?