The last time I spoke with Alistair Cockburn was between massages he was doing at an Agile Conference in Washington, D.C., in 2007, where he explained he's a "methodologist" and that massage is just another method to be learned, and adjusted, and customized to the recipient based on his or her response. Today, I spoke with Cockburn, one of the signatories of the original Agile Manifesto in 2001, about a 10-year reunion of sorts at the Snowbird ski resort in Utah where the original vision of agile programming was laid out. One thing he pointed out, that I had not been aware of, is that the manifesto was more of a wrapup of work that had been done in the previous decade than a coming-together of thinkers to solve the great programming problems of the day. "We were all doing this stuff in the 90s .. Jeff Sutherland and Ken Schwaber with Scrum, Kent Beck with [extreme programming], Jim Highsmith... Back then it was called lightweight development, and it's coincidental that we were all saying the same things." So now, 10 years after agile practices have been widely adopted, Cockburn wants to bring the gang back to Snowbird. "If nothing else, we'll first raise a glass, then pick a topic that's not agile." Cockburn's interested in looking at the problems that have been solved; the problems that can never be solved, like changing human nature; and the problems that can be solved. "Those are the ones worth going after," he said. And if they can't get consensus? "At least we'll have a good party." We'll be covering more on the Snowbird event and its aftermath on sdtimes.com and in the March issue of SD Times, which also will feature a special report on Agile Practices.