Re: Without a flame please! Extreme Programming!

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From: Dennis Myrén (dennis_at_oslokb.no)
Date: 11/17/04 

Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 09:38:10 +0100

I am sure there are some good things about it as well.
There is a lot of XP success stories out there.
I do not blame those who believe in it, although it does not attract me
personally. 

-- 
Regards,
Dennis JD Myrén
Oslo Kodebureau
"Sami Vaaraniemi" <samivanospam@pleasejippii.fi> wrote in message 
news:cnf2am$1ja$1@phys-news1.kolumbus.fi...
> Dennis,
>
> Any method or process, if taken to the extreme and applied blindly, can 
> eventually lead to a disaster. There is no substitute to common sense and 
> experience.
>
> I worked in a project that applied XP, and it was a success. What does 
> that prove? Nothing, really. In that project we had a bunch of experienced 
> developers who would have delivered even with a plain old waterfall 
> methodology.
>
> That said, there are things in XP programming that can truely improve 
> software quality, most notably automated testing and refactoring.
>
> Regards,
> Sami
>
> "Dennis Myrén" <dennis@oslokb.no> wrote in message 
> news:ILpmd.17004$Km6.196549@news4.e.nsc.no...
>> XP is everything that i am not.
>> It is just the straight opposite to how i think one should think about 
>> development.
>>
>> -- 
>> Regards,
>> Dennis JD Myrén
>> Oslo Kodebureau
>> "codemonk" <codemonk@verizon.net> wrote in message 
>> news:%23ZYDoS%23yEHA.2200@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Is there anyone else on this board that feels Extreme Programming 
>>> (although)
>>> making some great points is a little overcooked, extreme and just plain
>>> nonsense at times?
>>>
>>> Stede
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>

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