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What is Extreme Programming (XP)?

August 13, 2007 No comments yet

The other day, I was asked for the “elevator pitch” on XP, so I dug out this description from an old posting on another of my sites.
It’s taking best practices to the extreme…

Long iterations become short iterations with early experience
Long, irregular meetings become frequent stand up meetings
Back-end testing becomes unit testing
Specification artifacts become stories and [...]


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