Thanks for messing me up Rich… no really, as if I don’t have enough problems already… I’ve got like 8 parking tickets to deal with (written by a vindictive little bicycle cop at that!) But I digress… So agile development has always been interesting to me but extreme programming never fit my fancy. I knew nothing about it, but the word “extreme” made it sound impractical and unattainable, until I attended a talk by Rich Sheridan of Menlo Innovations (check out Agile Explained ) here in Chicago a week ago. It was really good. In fact it was so good that I sent him this email a few days ago: Rich, After your presentation last week I went to another agile (scrum)seminar and spoke to other people about agile (mostly scrum). I have to say, none of it sounded as cool as the stuff you spoke about. User stories sounds much cooler than “backlogs”, one week iterations sounds much better than 30 day sprints, and pair programming is probably one of the coolest programming concepts I’ve ever heard of. In all, XP sounds more fun, easier to use, and more intuitive.
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How Rich Sheridan Messed Up My Mind with Agile Development…