The New X-Men is a tale of two programmers and the new revolution in escaping from the Priests of Process into actually getting things done through binding developers like a pair of Vonnegut twins:

Traditional coding devotes a huge amount of time to up-front planning, then demands rigid adherence to that plan. XP is different. Programmers spend relatively little time planning and instead dive into the writing, making course corrections as needed and allowing better ideas to emerge after snippets of code are tested and assessed. The result is a speedy loop: plan, code, test, release, plan, code, test.

Does it work? Just ask the people who use it.

[ Source: Wired 11.09: The New X-Men ]