The one major thing I continue to love about extreme programming is it contains a solid list of practices that you can implement along with an understanding of

The one major thing I continue to love about extreme programming is it contains a solid list of practices that you can implement along with an understanding of why they work together. The issue I have with the agile manifesto is that it fails to acknowledge that changing away from that without solid experience of it usually means making that decision for the wrong reason. The agile manifesto's great flaw I think is that it assumes it experience in these types of processes and the sort of practices that underpin these principlies, without that experience it is very hard to adopt them.