Praise for Extreme Programming Explained, Second Edition “In this second edition of Extreme Programming Explained, Kent Beck orga- nizes and presents ve years’ worth of experiences, growth, and change revolv- ing around XP. If you are seriously interested in understanding how you and your team can start down the path of improvement with XP, you must read this book.” —Francesco Cirillo, Chief Executive Ofcer, XPLabs S.R.L. “The rst edition of this book told us what XP was—it changed the way many of us think about software development. This second edition takes it farther ...
Introduction to Extreme Programming http://www.jera.com/techinfo/ John Brewer • Jera Design • jbrewer@jera.com The 12 Core Practices of XP: What does “Simplest” mean? 1. The Planning Game: Business and development cooperate XP actually has a very specific definition of "simplest" (based on to produce the maximum business value as rapidly as possible. the list in Extreme Programming Explained, p.109): The planning game happens at various scales, but the basic 1. The system (code plus tests) clearly communicates everything rules are always the same: that needs to be communicated at the current instant in ...