September 30, 2001
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XP seems to be made up of a lot of practices. They might be good, but what’s the bottom line for a business person? The acid test for XP isn’t what the team does, but what they deliver. Here’s what you should get from your XP team.
September 29, 2001
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Pair programming might be useful between peers. But it seems like an inefficient use of a “senior” person’s time to be tied down to a “junior” person. Experience shows that pairing almost always pays off for both parties. However, not all readers are convinced: how about you?
September 5, 2001
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People ask whether they have to do the XP practices to be doing XP. In some environments, some of the practices are difficult or impossible. You don’t have to do the practices to be doing XP: You have to have done them. Practice makes perfect.
Kate gives Dan Devlin, the company owner, an overview of Scrum.
Chet Hendrickson and I have offered to help the Scrum Alliance build a broad and growing base of information relating to Scrum / Agile, and to the many skills and practices that can help teams be successful. Our offer has…
Piers Thompson sent me a good question about my recent database articles. I suspect others would like to hear the question and answers.
Here’s the current code, and some commentary, for the “But We Need a Database” article. UPDATED: Comments on Python style.