Mark Windholtz spent the first 12 years of his programming career writing code alone in a cubicle. But now when Windholtz creates code, he does so with a comrade at his side--one of the tenets of the ...

Some time ago, I wrote about the general problem of misconceptions about Extreme Programming. Now I'd like to tackle a specific misconception – the idea that Extreme Programming (XP) projects begin ...

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Extreme programming (XP) is a software development methodology that makes coding the primary activity. By promoting values such as simplicity and feedback, XP allows Java programmers to incrementally ...

As software eats the world, business leaders need to understand better how software gets made, and the people who make it. An excellent guide is Kent Beck, one of the parents of the Agile software ...

In my previous article, I outlined the planning stages that are performed during an XP project, with a particular emphasis on the upfront planning that is ignored in many “XP” projects. This month I ...