Pragmatism is implicit in Extreme Programming, although it is not explicitly recognized. For this reason, I believe that pragmatism deserves to be elevated to a fundamental value within XP
Pragmatism has permeated my own approach to helping make software development "hum" - I like what you've done here - and appreciate Garrick West's parallel observation and pointer here.
To your final example, when two or more people need to reach an agreement but can't find a consensus despite their efforts, Llewellyn Falco suggested a third ingeniously pragmatic solution that I think is captured by "stop talking, start doing": Llewellyn, in coaching mobbing (as it used to be called), proposed when facing such a blockage, to immediately start coding the least likely approach (and apologies to Llewellyn - I'm sure he characterized it better than "least likely"): if if works and it's good enough, we can move on; if if doesn't work, its adherents will have been gratified to have been heard and we can move on coding the other - and either way we'll have spent less time than we would have spent arguing approaches. Hearing him describe it, it so resonated. Ahhh, pragmatism.
Pragmatism has permeated my own approach to helping make software development "hum" - I like what you've done here - and appreciate Garrick West's parallel observation and pointer here.
To your final example, when two or more people need to reach an agreement but can't find a consensus despite their efforts, Llewellyn Falco suggested a third ingeniously pragmatic solution that I think is captured by "stop talking, start doing": Llewellyn, in coaching mobbing (as it used to be called), proposed when facing such a blockage, to immediately start coding the least likely approach (and apologies to Llewellyn - I'm sure he characterized it better than "least likely"): if if works and it's good enough, we can move on; if if doesn't work, its adherents will have been gratified to have been heard and we can move on coding the other - and either way we'll have spent less time than we would have spent arguing approaches. Hearing him describe it, it so resonated. Ahhh, pragmatism.