Hi all - I am a project manager new to XP. We are using it and we love it, but are kind of stumped about how to make pair programming really work. Currently we...
... Might be a bug. In the final question I voted for "won't be used" (because you didn't give me an alternative "don't know") but the results show 0% voted...
thanks you guys, already had 39 votes whilst ive been asleep :D If you havent voted you can at http://test.on30.co.uk/survey/index.php and to view the results...
I am with an software development organization considering implementing XP. Specifically, we have a software product as well as Professional Services. My...
At the close of last year's XP Universe Martin Fowler introduced the audience to what he called the "Zoo Game" or something along those lines. It was a game...
Hi, im doing a project on creating a automated refactoring tool, and ive created a simple survey which is multiple choice and only a few questions, if any of...
... That has also been my observation. If I go to the home team's field, and ask question about how they play, they'll probably be glad to talk all day. If I...
if i leave at 9 i can be there by 2. i want as much time with you as i can get. i'll probably go out with some people here but i'll have my phone....i know i'm...
... *here* the conversations often come across that way. That's because this is the XP neighborhood bar, of course its going to be all home town memorabilia...
... Regardless of whether or not I regard those practices as courageous, I _disregard_ them as not working! The question of courage never enters my mind in...
... This courageous argument is a blatant straw-man. Its the bungee jumping argument designed to elicit FUD in Doug's even more uniformed target audience. ...
... <snip /> ... When I was at IBM, the most common metaphor used among my immediate friends was the one for our process. We used the "Rotting Onion"...
Bill, Of what value is research in which the methodology of producing the results (in this case, the program written by the researcher/student team) is not...
Attached is a zip file containing a PDF of the Call For Participation for OOPSLA-2002. The due is March 22 for papers, tutorials, etc. <<OOPSLA CFP.zip>> ...
Some recent discussions here on the list have jostled the stacks of junk in my head and revealed a figurative little white card, on which I now act. Viz: -- I...
Hi, i am very new to xprogramming. I want to start with a basic understanding of XP and the advantageous it provides over a waterfall model of IS design. any...
Threads shouldn't be introduced until there's a real need for it. Often they make a program slower and less responsive rather than faster - it's a pretty...
... My experience has been that customers prefer some high-level wrapper around HttpUnit that doesn't require Java programming skills. Using a data-driven...
I am in a position of providing consulting advice to a company that is adopting the practices of extreme programming. From an automated testing standpoint,...
I have been a proponent of XP and was implementing it at my company (until we ran out of clients). But we were a small group - 6 or 8 programmers and a couple...
Okay, a few more crazy questions if I may: We've been XP for about 3 years. The kinks are ironed out. It's now a well oiled machine. These programmers move...
... HttpUnit (http://httpunit.sourceforge.net/) is useful for acceptance testing web applications, to some degree. Ideally, it's best to have the tests driven...
=From: "ralphamack" <ralph@...> =--- In extremeprogramming@y..., John Carter <john.carter@t...> =wrote: => On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Peter Hansen wrote: ...
Some people use an Extreme Hour. http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ExtremeHour Object Mentor used to have their immersion slides available somewhere. Does anybody...
My efforts in discussing extreme programming with my manager has been paying off. He has agreed to let me present XP to our development team to introduce...
One of the main criticisms of XP seems to be that without BDUF you can't possibly develop a system with a good design. When I read statements like this I have...
... Yes, the fortune cookie I got at the start of this project (and is still posted on my cubicle wall) said, "Any rough times are now behind you." - George...
