What happens when we pursue even better humanity in our workplaces?
Should we always treat humanity and productivity as the target of
trade-off? XP seeks the rarely recognized quadrant where both humanity
and productivity roar in the 2x2 matrix.

In my team we work 16 hours a week. In my country working 50 to 60
hours is a norm, especially in this industry. Working 16 hours is an
impossible choice. Have a look at the graph that I made at
http://swivel.com/graphs/show/8434906 This country resides far away
from the trend(that one with almost 2400 hours annually). The US is
another outlier.

What do they do in the rest of their time? One guy in the team is
learning electric guitar, preparing for 10km marathon, translating a
book(agile retrospectives), participating in a study group for Erlang
and planning to take a trip to the sea shore.

I consider my work as a social experiment.

Because we are working only 16 hours, we think about how to make more
value day by day, more seriously. How could we deliver more value by
less? Where is the leverage? These are the questions we try to answer
every working day. I believe we are producing much more value than a
team with 40 or 50 hours a week.

We are using a few XP practices unconsciously, like Sit Together,
Whole Team, Informative Workspace, Energized Work, Pair Programming,
Stories, Weekly Cycle and etc.

Oh, BTW, from the day 1 of development, we released. The service ran
on one of our team members home PC -- the company didn't get server
ready yet.

June