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  19 November 2002

XP Misconceptions

This article makes for an interesting read, but it suffers from a common misconception about agile methods and planning. Namely that Agile doesn't do planning. I'm more familiar with XP than the other agile methods, but as far as I know, none of them claim that 'planning doesn't work so lets throw it out', as the article states. There's even a book called "Planning Extreme Programming", by Kent Beck and Martin Fowler. What XP does recommend is that you should have just enough planning/design/whatever for your specific needs. Its about removing anything that doesn't add value to your process.

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