PragPub 2011-05: Issue #23 by The Pragmatic Bookshelf

Author:The Pragmatic Bookshelf
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: PragPub—Monthly Magazine
Publisher: The Pragmatic Bookshelf, LLC
Published: 2011-05-01T04:00:00+00:00

Agile Reflections

A Dozen Years or so of Agile Development Practices

by Jeff Langr, Tim Ottinger

Jeff and Tim take a break from their recent articles on agile practices to reflect on their personal experiences with agile practices, and specifically extreme programming (XP).

Recently we’ve been running a series of articles on agile practices by Jeff Langr and Tim Ottinger, the authors of Agile in a Flash. This month, Jeff and Tim shift gears to reflect on their personal experiences with agile practices and specifically extreme programming (XP). In these short reflections, Jeff and Tim share how XP has changed their professional lives.

Jeff: I found out about extreme programming at a developer’s conference in San Jose in 1999, where I attended a talk by Kent Beck, who I’d followed in the Smalltalk world. We had tried spiral at MCI a few years prior. I’d loved its incremental/iterative cycles, but had struggled with how to keep it from degrading over time. XP immediately felt right to me. My first thought was, “Oh, holy crud, this is how you make it work!” A dozen years later, the most enjoyable projects I’ve ever been on have been XP efforts.

Tim: I was a Usenet denizen back when Usenet was the “big thing.” I was on the C++ and object-oriented groups when Kent and company started talking about this wild and crazy new way of developing software called XP. It sounded daft at first blush, but the more we discussed it the more it spoke to me. It was years later when I finally converted to XP. It remains a brilliant and counter-intuitive system that works.

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