Extreme Programming

Extreme summary of the Extreme Programming methodology



Common Ideas:

• Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
• Working software over comprehensive documentation
• Customer collaboration over contract negotiations
• Responding to change over following a plan

Values:

• Communication - Provides the team with an avenue for expressing ideas, thoughts, understanding and innovation
• Feedback - provides the team with a way to determine the effectiveness of what they are doing
• Simplicity - keeps the team from getting bogged down and over-complicating the application
• Courage - necessary to just do the right thing, even when that is not always the path to least resistance

Practices:



Planning game, small releases, continuous testing, simple design,

coding standards, pair programming, collective code ownership,

refactoring (cut/paste), continuous integration, metaphor and sustainable pace.



The real benefits that we can gain from XP are:

1. Produce high quality software
2. Increase team communication
3. Software development will be more fun