My blog has not seen a post in a long, long time... My last post even promised that I would post more.

Excuses aside, I do sincerely plan a lot more posts in the coming future. As I noted in an earlier post, I have taken a position at one of my clients, Nominum. I've been an employee a bit over a year and it has been a very interesting experience.

I've been ranting for a while that XP is an engineering practice and that there is more to successful software projects than what agile development offers. I've been critical about the silence (in my opinion) of the agile community and literature on the missing elements that actually have the largest impact on a successful project. I had theories (some at least partially verified in my experience) about the interdependencies between the various elements of the "value chain" in a software project.

My experience at Nominum has smacked me in the face with all the things I've ranted about. Its confirmed many ideas, but also posed many challenges. It is still a work in progress, but I revisted and revised many of my ideas regarding XP and agile software development. I plan to post about them in the near future.