{"id":88,"date":"2009-05-30T00:32:51","date_gmt":"2009-05-30T06:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pervasivecode.com\/blog\/?p=88"},"modified":"2009-08-04T17:54:01","modified_gmt":"2009-08-04T23:54:01","slug":"xp-experiences-introduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.pervasivecode.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/30\/xp-experiences-introduction\/","title":{"rendered":"Extreme Programming Experiences: Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Extreme Programming Experiences: Introduction<\/p>\n<p>Over the last six months I&#8217;ve had the privilege of working in a software development team that was practicing the closest thing to a full implmentation of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Extreme_Programming\">XP<\/a> that I&#8217;ve ever seen.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThis team was incubated in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pivotallabs.com\/\">Pivotal Labs<\/a>, who are experts at the <a href=\"http:\/\/rubyonrails.org\/\">Ruby on Rails<\/a> software framework and the XP methodology.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve read a lot about XP over the last ten years, and tried some of the <a href=\"http:\/\/c2.com\/cgi\/wiki?ExtremeProgrammingCorePractices\">practices<\/a> when it seemed to make sense for the project I was working on at the time. I&#8217;ve tended to feel a mix of curious optimism and curmudgeonly skepticism toward some of the practices: could these ideas really work?<\/p>\n<p>Well, I have tried to think critically in my analysis of fuzzy topics like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pervasivecode.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/10\/rapid-application-development-vs-big-design-up-front\/\">how much design to do<\/a>, so that I could figure out not whether something was a universally Great Idea or not, but rather when it would work well and when it wouldn&#8217;t. The only way to find out for sure is to try them.<\/p>\n<p>Well, now I&#8217;ve worked in an XP shop and I&#8217;ve learned a lot about how to make XP work, and about the challenges that a team following an agile methodology faces. Here are the most important things I&#8217;ve learned, in the next few posts (broken up by topic to help keep the comments focused).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Extreme Programming Experiences: Introduction Over the last six months I&#8217;ve had the privilege of working in a software development team that was practicing the closest thing to a full implmentation of XP that I&#8217;ve ever seen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,61,5,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agile-development","category-extreme-programming","category-process","category-ruby-on-rails"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pervasivecode.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pervasivecode.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pervasivecode.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pervasivecode.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pervasivecode.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.pervasivecode.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153,"href":"http:\/\/www.pervasivecode.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions\/153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pervasivecode.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pervasivecode.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pervasivecode.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}