I'm currently working my way through the book "Agile software development with Scrum" by Schwaber and Beedle [US] - gotta say, it's looking pretty good! I'm only about half way through but so far it looks like the only development process which may actually work for a company like the one I currently work at, problem is that we tend to do quick projects with very small teams (mostly teams of 1 developer with occasional design / business analyst input) and rapidly 'evolving' (i.e., horribly mutating) requirements - so the old monolithic development processes just don't fit with the way we work. What's really cool about SCRUM is that it is designed to fit around existing development processes (such as Extreme Programming), it just gives a bit more control / visibility to the whole process. The odd thing is that some of the best managers I've worked with at previouscompanies have used very similar methods - though not actually based on this specific process, just because it seemed like the right thing to do. So, if you think there's nop development process which could ever fit in with the way your company works, check out SCRUM - you may be very surprised!