It places a strong emphasis on technical
practices in addition to the more common teamwork and structural practices.
??? XP has undergone intense scrutiny. There are thousands of pages of explanations, experience
reports, and critiques out there. Its capabilities and limitations are very well understood.
??? I have a lot of experience with XP, which allows me to share insights and practical tips that will
help you apply XP more easily.
To master the art of agile development??”or simply to use XP to be more successful??”follow these steps:
1. Decide why you want to use agile development. Will it
make your team and organization more successful?
How? (For ideas, see ???Enter Agility??? in Chapter 1.)
2. Determine whether this book??™s approach will work for
your team. (See ???Is XP Right for Us???? in Chapter 4.)
3. Adopt as many of XP??™s practices as you can. (See Chapter 4.) XP??™s practices are self-reinforcing, so
it works best when you use all of them together.
4. Follow the XP practices rigorously and consistently. (See Part II.) If a practice doesn??™t work, try
following the book approach more closely. Teams new to XP often underapply its practices. Expect
to take two or three months to start feeling comfortable with the practices and another two to six
months for them to become second nature.
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