Team–Client Relationships and Extreme Programming

Extreme Programming

Integrating Extreme Programming and Contracts

Extreme Programming (XP) is a light-weight software engineering methodology conceived by KENT BECK with a strong focus on business value. Design by Contract is a software design technique defined by BERTRAND MEYER that stresses stability and maintainability of large systems. The two are regarded as incompatible by many of their respective followers. In this paper, the authors describe why contr...

Recovery, Redemption, and Extreme Programming

requirements—gathered by the previous con-sultancy—that had outlived their build-by date. On the other side (the hard place), was a client that, acknowledging that it had switched horses midstream, was willing to scale back on functionality but refused to budge on delivery date. In short, Thought-Works found itself with a mere two months to both turn the project around and deliver a business-re...

Supporting Distributed Extreme Programming

Extreme programming (XP) is arguably improving the productivity of small, co-located software development teams. In this extended abstract, we describe an approach that overcomes the XP constraint of co-location by introducing a process-support environment (called MILOS) that helps software development teams to maintain XP practices in a distributed setting. MILOS supports project coordination,...

Combining Extreme Programming

The main drivers of the growing ICT market are software products. European Information Technology Observatory estimates, that in year 2002 the total value of ICT software products in Western Europe will be more than 70 billions Euro. Unfortunately very few people are satisfied with quality of the software products and processes. Software Process Improvement tools, like CMM and ISO 9000 were to ...