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Podcast: The Mob Mentality Show
Episode: From Rogue Robots to Reliable Releases: My Journey into Extreme XP
Description: In this lightning-talk-style Mob Mentality Show episode, Austin Chadwick takes you through his real-world evolution from clunky, waterfall-style processes to fully cranked-up Extreme Programming (XP)—a journey defined by failures, breakthroughs, and a relentless pursuit of clean, test-driven code.
Starting in a rigid, process-heavy dev shop where a typo fix required presidential-level approvals, Austin shares how years of stagnation, big batch releases, and public demo disasters (including rogue robots) led him to ask the big question: What if we actually did Extreme Programming all the way—no compromises?
This episode digs into:
- Why doin...