by Brad Appleton Many people today judge all of "Agile development" based on what they know about Extreme Programming (XP), quite possibly because that is all or most of what they've heard about agile development. I wish all of those folks (especially agile skeptics) would take a close look at Feature-Driven Development (FDD) if for no other reason than because it is an example of an agile method that is very different from XP. FDD is quite agile while still employing of many of the traditional practices that agile skeptics are probably more accustomed to seeing.