What are some of the problems addressed by agile programming such as XP?

What will be an ideal response?

1. Projects that are often planned with no regard to the particular nature of software development or the task at hand.
2. Managers who have unreasonable, counter-productive, or wasteful expectations from the development team.
3. Analysts who imagine they can "document" the last bit of detail before design.
4. Designers who believe they produce a perfect design before coding starts.
5. The isolation of programmers in their little spheres of activity that prevents them from learning or contributing to the collective knowledge.
6. The widely incompatible coding styles and coding solutions that result in chaos and create roadblocks to improving the code by different programmers.