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XP and the Cognitive Divide

by Ben Kovitz

Here's a speculation that may explain why some people have angry reactions to Extreme Programming. Perhaps XP implicitly denigrates their preferred form of cognition: examining a representation. XP says, in virtually every practice, that depending heavily on a representation of the product to the exclusion of concrete interaction is mostly a way to fool yourself.

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XP and the Cognitive Divide February 2003

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