For sure. XP looked at first glance to be heavily prescriptive. But the initial set of practices were always meant as a starting point for a team. The notion wa

For sure. XP looked at first glance to be heavily prescriptive. But the initial set of practices were always meant as a starting point for a team. The notion was to give them a safe context in which to experiment and adapt. That was never really compatible with large companies, where managers need to feel in control and appear actively responsible for success. It also wasn't compatible with a top-down desire for "legibility". So in practice we end up with uniform process that's a bad fit for individual breeds