Re: Re: Overstepping Qualifications [was: Practice: Pair Programming, Sex, etc]

Hi, Ron! I don't wish to deny you your right to say whatever pleases
you. And I certainly enjoy your posts, on topic and off. However, I am
compelled to contradict you on something.

On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 20:43 -0500, Ron Jeffries wrote:
> I feel free to talk about whatever's on my mind. I don't speak for XP, [...]

When you and Kent write in places like the Extreme Programming mailing
lists and the Extreme Programming books, you are seen by many as
speaking for XP, or at least authoritatively about it. I imagine that
having ex cathedra powers is not something that you entirely enjoy, but
I think you have them, especially for people outside the community.

And I think that's why we're taking these paragraphs more seriously than
we would if they were written by somebody else or somewhere else.
Personally, having met and corresponded with you guys for years, I can
generally separate the personal opinions from the official ones.
(Although not always; I'm still wondering whether sexual harassment is a
bigger problem on XP teams than others, as I inferred from this
section.)

Others, however, will read this as Kent Beck, the Father of Extreme
Programming, saying in the One True XP Book that sexual attraction is a
relatively serious problem when pairing, at least for heterosexuals. Now
that may be accurate, and regardless, as you point out, it's Kent's book
to write. But for those of us who work in the penumbra of his power,
what he writes is of concern.

William


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William Pietri <william-JnOFOPmZhjNBDgjK7y7TUQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>



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