Executive Report

The Business of Extreme Programming

Posted January 31, 2002 | Leadership |

Extreme Programming (XP) has a lot of practices for programmers, and it sounds like it might be just for programmers. But nothing could be further from the truth. XP is a software process focused on rapid delivery of value to the enterprise. In this Executive Report, I'll examine how this comes about.

About The Author
Ron Jeffries
Ron Jeffries has more than 30 years’ experience in leadership and development of commercial object-oriented, relational database, programming language, and operating systems software. Mr. Jeffries has particular expertise in teaching and applying XP. He entered the XP movement in its beginning, as the first full-time XP coach, working with Cutter Senior Consultant Kent Beck on the well-known C3 payroll system. He is coauthor, with Ann Anderson… Read More
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