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The XP Paradigm Shift

Posted May 9, 2001 | Leadership |

One of the most interesting sessions at this year's Cutter Summit conference was the one on XP. If you haven't been keeping up with your buzzwords lately, XP is the abbreviation for extreme programming; one of the leading spokesmen on the topic, Kent Beck, gave the keynote address, and a spirited debate took place during the panel session that followed.

About The Author
Ed Yourdon
Ed Yourdon was cofounder, with Karen Coburn, of Cutter Consortium. Ed served as Fellow of the Cutter Business Technology Council, and Founding Editor and Editor Emeritus of the Cutter IT Journal. He chaired Cutter's Summit for many years. Mr. Yourdon is widely known as the lead developer of the structured analysis/design methods of the 1970s. He was a codeveloper of the Yourdon/Whitehead method of object-oriented (OO) analysis/design and the… Read More
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