XP Expanded: Patterns for Distributed eXtreme Programming

Ever–increasing globalisation of businesses that consume development effort leads to the desire to create development organisations that span the world. Meanwhile XP and other Agile approaches emphasise the importance of close communication and collaboration. These two forces on development teams seem to be in flat contradiction. In fact a body of techniques for successful distributed Agile development is beginning to emerge. These few patterns record those facets of one successful distributed XP team’s practice that seem to be widely shared amongst distributed development efforts with an Agile bent. The patterns are: Kickoff, Visits Build Trust, Virtual Shared Location, Remote Pair, Multiple Communication Modes