| Bold Leap Forward Getting the business to accept responsibility and authority for the scope of systems (the major organizational implication of Extreme Programming) is reasonable and possible, the results are satisfying and valuable. Mission Impossible Organizations don't want to change, and organizational suggestions from technologies will simply be ignored, no matter the scale of problems or opportunities if those problems are solved. | "Because culture embodies perception and action together, changing culture is difficult and prone to backsliding." Kent Beck, Guest Editor Opening Statement The Unbearable Lightness of Programming: A Tale of Two Cultures Using XP for Safety-Critical Software Are You Mature Enough for XP? When and Where Agile Succeeds Extreme India Freeing the Slave with Two Masters: An Embedded Programming Team's Transition to XP | |
| Next Issue The Rebirth of Wireless in the Enterprise Guest Editor: Arielle Emmett In the wake of the recent meltdown of the telecommunications industry, analysts are trying to figure out how to offer wireless services and integrate them into existing enterprise IT in a way that will reestablish industry value and consumer and investor confidence. For every business intelligence and customer relationship opportunity offered by wireless technology, there is a profound productivity and integration challenge to enterprise IT. Next month, telecommunications industry expert Arielle Emmett will dial into the debate over the kinds of enterprise solutions that must be conceived and implemented to help fulfill the promise of wireless and mobile technology. | ||
Extreme Programming (XP) calls for the rapid and frequent production of small increments of customer-visible functionality. The difficulties of applying XP, however, live in the social shift it implies. Can good programmers, project managers, and customers learn to acknowledge their fears and accept their rights and responsibilities in the XP environment? Kent Beck examines real-world examples where XP helped (with or without struggle) and where XP didn't help or failed miserably. Don't miss these true confessions from the world of XP!
