An email to a good friend and colleague that I managed to clean up enough to post: http://langrsoft.com/articles/xpProsAndCons.shtml -Jeff- author, Agile Java:...
OK.....I have been reading about XP and am open to using it on Projects. How do I get started? We are a small shop with a total of 4 programmers. Though there...
Hi... ... Sorry to piggyback your thread a bit late Steve, but the list is too busy to track down your earlier conversations. I have never satisfactorily got...
What about: a Refactoring bigot a Refactoring zealot a Refactoring obsessive a Refactoring queen Hopefully, not too many people will be offended by the last...
"Automated testing makes the team go faster" [TDD] -- this is one of the tenets of XP and something that Robert Martin repeats often, (perhaps with different...
I've gotten a friend interested in XP and introduced them to the process when coding in a Microsoft .NET environment. He however uses PHP 5 on a regular basis...
Hi Kent, ... Yes, I felt depressed after my list as well :( Your list, most items of which have also caused me problems, prompted a few more examples to come...
In a message dated 5/4/2005 9:12:34 P.M. Mountain Daylight Time, extremeprogramming@yahoogroups.com writes: Subject: Re: Basement decisions This basement...
And here's what's fascinating --- what different meaning the quote means depending on which van Moltke we attribute it to ! In a message dated 5/5/2005 2:13:33...
Just read this, http://cgi.bramwell.plus.com/krblog/2005/04/energising_the.html, and it reminds of my current dissatisfaction about how I've been doing ...
A friend of mine is employing programmers to do some work for him. We've chatted about XP and testing from time to time and he asked me about acceptance tests....
... I've worked in several organizations with a model that programmers in the corporate I.T. department were responsible for "wearing the corporate hat" and...
"By 3.30pm Friday (we knock off early on Fridays) I'm ready to go home, not go to the pub with workmates. However, of late we have had a tendency to go to the...
In a situation where the customer community cannot agree on what the requirements entail and what is in scope for a fixed-price, fixed-time project, what...
Thanks for the correction. Alistair In a message dated 5/3/2005 9:36:52 P.M. Mountain Daylight Time, extremeprogramming@yahoogroups.com writes: Subject: Re:...
... (they didn't phrase it >that way), the speaker said they knew they'd succeeded, "when the flowerboxes begin showing up on >front porches." Teams have the...
I am confused about the definition of customer in XP as defined on this group. There is the company customer. There is the XP customer. There is the Customer...
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Hi, I am looking for heuristic search usages(simulated annealing, tabu search, genetic...) for web services. Is there a source you could offer me to look? Are...
Apart from index cards, what other low tech tools have you found useful in XP projects? Big Visible Charts Whiteboards Digital camera to capture whiteboard...
... I've experienced this sort of thing many times in job interviews over the years. The project manager (interviewer) is often desperately clutching at straws...
I've been spending my freetime in the past few months reading up as much as I can on Agile software development methods, but every day requirements (or should...
Hi Extreme Programming group members, We are proud to announce the first event of the IASA's Toronto Chapter. Please join us in welcoming Scott Cairney ...
... Sometimes comments are more important than the code. We have some very ugly code to control a DC power supply for spacecraft testing. Comments helped...
Hello everyone, I am Krishna, new member in this group. I am a member of this group since a couple of months. Have read few messages but never posted. I am...
On my journey to XP/Agile, one of the first things I changed from the outset was to standardize on doing unit and system testing. We initially focused on...
Sixth International Conference on eXtreme Programming and Agile Processes in Software Engineering XP2005 June 18-23, 2005, University of Sheffield, UK ...
eXtremos: http://acmqueue.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=290 "The thorough use of internal documentation is one of the most-overlooked ways of...
