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XP and Culture Change: Part II: Opening Statement

by Kent Beck

Round two. When last we left our intrepid change agents (Cutter IT Journal, September 2002), they were trying to introduce Extreme Programming to a largely resisting set of projects. The most superficial model of Extreme Programming is as a set of practices. But implied by those practices is a dramatic shift in the social contract of technical work. Weekly planning eliminates plausible deniability on the part of business sponsors should a project go off the rails. Public estimation and tracking eliminate the opportunity for technical folks to run off and scratch their curiosity while ignoring the goals of the folks who pay the bills.

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XP and Culture Change: Part II: Opening Statement February 2003

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