So, it has been three days of solid meetings. I wish I could say that I was the willing victim, but instead I was the one dragging folks off to meetings so they wouldn’t be able to do any real work. In theory, we will be all the more productive because we have spent so much time hashing out what we will be building. We will test the theory next week when the iteration officially begins. We have a total of 180 ideal development hours that programmers have signed up for, and only 205 real hours to get it done. I think we will learn a lot this first week of XP, but somehow I doubt our optimisim is grounded in reality. Essentially, the tasks I thought would take 2 months the team signed up for in 2 weeks. I’m willing to be proved wrong.