The part where you talk more about how you're going to program than actually Programming, Motherfucker.
Who does that? I don't know anyone that actually does XP that does that. There's no such thing as XP certification, and I have never seen an XP class offered. There's not even an XP conference anymore.
It looks like there's a lot of programming going on there. The lack of continuous deployment has been an admission of omission by Kent Beck, but other than that, is it the fact that there is a meeting once a day and once a week? Planning of any kind gets in the way of programming?
I didn't say that at all. Once I worked with a guy who would work out the entire application on paper before even touching a computer. Think Fortran, C, and hardcore information theory. If he owned a laptop I never saw it.
His company has been profitable for years and years and years. So, sure, planning can work out very well and I do a lot of it too.