One thing I like about XP is that it focuses on people who directly interact with what you build - programmers, users and domain experts. From the article: >

One thing I like about XP is that it focuses on people who directly interact with what you build - programmers, users and domain experts. From the article: > Without putting ‘who’ first, you can’t create trust. You’ll only have politics and dysfunction. This addresses your point. If people in charge don't care about those who are affected by their decisions, AKA not taking responsibility, then you have a deeper problem. The article states that the 'why' should fall out of the 'who' and that the 'who' is someone you care about and work with. There is a very effective ideal behind that and anything on top that gets in the way should be subjected to scrutiny and not accepted as a given.