As you gain experience, look deeper; use the ?©tudes to help connect Part II??™s detailed
practices to Part III??™s general principles.
NOTE
These ?©tudes are also useful for teams not currently practicing XP.
Either way, the ?©tudes require thought to be effective. Each ?©tude provides information, but it doesn??™t
tell you how to act on that information. Think about it. What did you learn from the ?©tude? What was
frustrating or exciting? How does that information affect your work? What will you do about it? Without
attention and reflection??”that is, mindfulness??”the ?©tudes are just games.
NOTE
It??™s no coincidence that you need mindfulness to master the art of agile development
as well. You have to think about more than XP??™s practices for it to be effective.
Like musical ?©tudes, our mini-?©tudes work best when you repeat them. We??™ve designed them to take
half an hour, so you can (and should) practice them every day for a week or more. Unlike musical
?©tudes, these agile exercises work best when you include your whole team. The more you all understand
about the process and where everyone fits in, the better you will work together.
To start, you need a quiet work area capable of holding everyone in your team comfortably.
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