Episode 31 - Extremist Programming

There I am just getting ready for another painful debug session when in walks Kevin, fresh back from his training course. It's a miracle of course because we don't have a training budget. These days we don't even have a books budget, but who am I to complain? It's only the fact that Kevin enters every competition on every web site he visits that finally paid off. A one-day no expense incurred intensive training course on 'extremist programming', and already I can sense that Kevin has returned to us a changed man.

'Good was it?' I ask as he saunters over brimming full of new-found confidence.

'Excellent,' he replies. 'Just excellent.'

'So what did you pick up?'

'We're doing it all wrong,' he announces loudly, drawing the attention of the rest of the team. 'Just totally wrong.'

I can the 'no shit sherlock' comment. 'In what way?'

'Our waterfall process sucks,' he announces.

'But we don't use waterfall,' Alison points out.

'We've never used it,' I add.

Kevin is thrown for a moment but then bounces back. 'Yeah, but if we did use it, then it would suck big time.'

'So what else did you learn?' Rice asks him.

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