God damn, Zed. You sure jump to conclusions that people are going to fight with you! Not that you remember it we've met twice and had perfectly normal conversat

God damn, Zed. You sure jump to conclusions that people are going to fight with you! Not that you remember it we've met twice and had perfectly normal conversations. No, I agree, dammit! So take that! Although I can see where you may have misread my honest question as rhetoric to indicate conflict. That was, as I said, an honest question--though perhaps missing a few words. I was inquiring whether the "agile" consultants you've known start coding on a new project from day one of the project indicating that, in those cases, they aren't taking much time at allfor research or planning. Agile is a broad label that doesn't make a lot of sense. I've been in the biz 16 years. If there's anything that I preach it's "it depends" and "YMMV". Please don't assume we're all out to get you or that we all believe that we know better than everyone else.