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Title: Is eXtreme Programming still alive and kicking?
Proposer: rachel_davies
Type: Case Study
Duration: 45 minutes
Description:
Back in 2000, I worked for 3 years as a Java developer at Connextra, one
of the first companies trying eXtreme Programming in UK. If you've ever
been asked to write stories using the “As a ..I want..so that..” way then
blame us - we were also the originators of Mock Objects. Perhaps because
of the scary moniker which implies a full-on approach, other agile
approaches have become more popular across industry in subsequent years.
It's interesting to note that no equivalent organisation to Scrum Alliance
or Lean SSC exists that is dedicated to promoting XP and advancing the
state of practice unless you count London's very own eXtreme Tuesday Club.
XP has therefore become more of a grass roots approach for software
developers with most organisations opting for much less extreme agile
approaches although still pulling in milder XP practices such as user
stories, velocity, and test-driven development.
I've worked as an independent consultant helping teams figure out how to
apply Scrum in various context and seen some cool and crazy things done.
In June 2012, I started work as a coach at Unruly Media, a company founded
by some of the original team members at Connextra. Immediately before
this, I also worked for Industrial Logic who built upon their own
IndustrialXP method and re-evaluated many XP practices from a Lean
perspective. Over the last year, I've found it really interesting to see
how many old-school XP practices are still helping developers and where
gaps remain (such as working with UX and Infra specialists). It's also
been interesting to see how open our XP team is to “embracing change” and
experimenting with ideas from Kanban and Scrum.
Come to this session if you have an interest in hearing about current
state of XP and how it's been evolving.
Jon: Rachel notes - I realise the above description is a bit on the long side but I think it might be interesting to talk about how XP has evolved over since it's inception 12+ years ago. Could even do this as a retrospective and involve audience in a fishbowl.
Roger: This sounds interesting.
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