TAMPA, FLA. — As corporations struggle to complete application development projects on time, within budget and without lots of buggy code, they’re taking a closer look at new development methods, such ...
As corporations struggle to complete application development projects on time, within budget and without lots of buggy code, they’re taking a closer look at new development methods, such as extreme ...
When extreme programming (XP) catapulted onto the software development scene, it appeared to answer many project failure modes—such as documentation overkill, lack of clear customer requirements, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
When going to school last year, one of my professors introduced me to eXtreme Programming, a series of practices designed to make software development Better™. One of those practices is Test First ...
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 ...
In Part I of “Questioning Extreme Programming,” Pete McBreen cuts right to the chase, noting that Extreme Programming (XP) is controversial because programmers are pushing their managers to allow them ...
Zero G is a survivor. The San Francisco company makes installation software-the programs that run when you’re putting new software on your PC. Its headquarters are in the once booming south-of-Market ...