WordPress released their latest version of blogging software on Monday. I haven’t had a chance to upgrade yet, but I’m excited to see the new features in action.

In reading their release notes, I was most interested in what they had to say about their future development plans (scroll down to the section The Future). More frequent releases? Development based on user-requested features? Specifying a release date immediately following the current release (a.k.a timeboxing)? Those are agile methods, my friend! The developers all but announced their shift to adopting agile practices, without actually mentioning the term Agile anywhere.

It makes me wonder if they are familiar with Agile, but don’t want to (or didn’t find the need to) say it; or if they just came to the conclusion that these practices make sense without actually knowing anything about Agile development. If it is the latter, than it speaks volumes to the argument that many agile practices are just plain common-sense.