I am a huge fan of attaching a "business value" to everything the team does. I also see the value (for everyone involved) to frequently collaborate and think about these things. But where the article proposes to ask all the developers for updates three times a day, I prefer the approach where the developers "pull in" their product managers when they need them, instead of the product managers "pushing" their views onto them multiple times a day.

This is why I was asking - I still don't fully understand if this is a "XP thing" or not.