Is Xp still extreme?
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C3 Project
Chrysler Comprehensive Compensation System
Started 1993
Kent Beck joined 1996
Working Software in 1997
In 2015
Windows 8.1 / OS X 10.10
Core i7 Processors (4 cores / 8 Threads) at 3GHz
8GB or 16GB RAM
2TB HDD or 512GB SSD
4G Wireless
"At the core... is the idea that people should design for themselves their own houses, streets and communities. This idea... comes simply from the observation that most of the wonderful places of the world were not made by architects but by the people".
Christopher Alexander et al.,
A Pattern Language, front bookflap
What is XP?
Extreme Programming (XP) is about social change.
Extreme Programming Explained: Emblace Change (2nd Edition) Kent Beck
Prepare for success.
Don’t protect yourself from success by holding back.
Do your best and then deal with the consequences.
That’s extreme.
You leave yourself exposed.
Extreme Programming Explained: Emblace Change (2nd Edition) Kent Beck
It is about letting go of habits and patterns that were adaptive in the past, but now get in the way off its doing our best work.
It is about giving up defenses that protect us but interfere with our productivity.
It may leave us feeling exposed.
Extreme Programming Explained: Emblace Change (2nd Edition) Kent Beck
XP assumes:
you see yourself a part of a team
you want to work together
change can be made inexpensive
you want to grow to improve skills and to improve your relationships
you are willing to make changes to meet those goals