Exploring Extreme Programming
Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change, 2/e, by Kent Beck and Cynthia Andres. Addison-Wesley Professional, 2004. ISBN 0321278658. Kent Beck’s new introduction to the practices and philosophy of XP. See an extended summary. (Reviewed Feb., ’05)
Get a feeling for pairing. Continue reading Pair Practice
XP teams have to manage stories and tasks. The INVEST and SMART acronyms can remind teams of the good characteristics of each. Continue reading INVEST in Good Stories, and SMART Tasks
Ward Cunningham has created an acceptance testing framework known as fit. (See http://fit.c2.com for more details.) In this brief experiment, we’ll use tests to help specify a simple spreadsheet for strings. Continue reading Fit Spreadsheet
Extreme Programming Explored, by William C. Wake. Addison-Wesley, 2001. Foreword by Dave Thomas (The Pragmatic Programmer). This book grew out of the XPlorations series of articles. I wrote them as I was learning XP, and relating it to my own Continue reading Extreme Programming Explored
A simplified approach to iteration planning. Continue reading Simplified Iteration Planning
Some ideas about updating estimates, mid-iteration estimate changes, and 0-point stories. Updating Estimates Suppose your velocity is 2. Your customer has selected one 2-point story, and in the exact middle of the iteration you find you’re done with that story. Continue reading Distortions in Velocity
Metaphors for XP itself. Continue reading Speech: Metaphors for Extreme Programming (XP)
Practice release planning. Continue reading Release Planning Party
What is the system metaphor and how do you use it? We’ll explore the definition and purpose, and discuss a few metaphors used in some XP projects. We’ll explore possible metaphors for two types of systems. Finally, we’ll discuss some Continue reading The System Metaphor