fdiotalevi: I think that this article is totally missing to enunciate clearly the fundamentals of XP. First of all the four values: communication, simplicity, feedback and courage; and then pratices: some of them are actually mentioned, but without a precise order and often with inaccurate names. Check Kent Beck Extreme Programming Explained
I've written a whitepaper at http://www.lux-seattle.com/resources/whitepapers/waterfall.htm that I think is worthy of an external link from this article, but I don't think it's appropriate for me to link it from the article myself. Could someone else take a look & link if you feel it's appropriate? Or maybe from another related article? -- Jmabel 20:00, 26 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Extreme programming and outsourcing
Would anyone care to describe the relationship between extreme programming and outsourcing (if any)?
168.209.98.35 02:33, 29 Feb 2004 (UTC)
- Extreme programming relies on getting everyone in a room together for JAD sessions. There shouldn't be much issue as to whether everyone is legally employed by the same organization -- the method works just as well (or as badly) with contractors, as long as they are pretty much dedicated to the project -- but it certainly works best when developers and users can have frequent face-to-face contact. Some of these techniques are still useful even in an "offshore" outsourcing situation, but the "extreme programming" paradigm as a whole would be very hard to maintain. -- Jmabel 06:52, 29 Feb 2004 (UTC)
References
Sheesh, do you think we have enough references? I am removing all the references except for two. (How in the world did Mythical Man-Month get in this list?) If someone feels passionately enough to add some of these references back into the article, please limit it to a total of five. --Rookkey 04:31, 22 Aug 2004 (UTC)