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Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change, 2nd Edition
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Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change, 2nd Edition

by Kent Beck, Cynthia Andres
November 2004
Intermediate to advanced
216 pages
4h 25m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Chapter 10. The Whole XP Team

Many people’s perspectives must come into play for effective software development to occur. The XP practice Whole Team suggests that a variety of people work together in interlinking ways to make a project more effective. They have to work together as a group for each to be successful. Everyone on an XP team has linked his future in the realm of work. XP started out prescribing effective ways for programmers to behave on a project. Here are the beginnings of prescriptions for each member of an XP team.

The principle of flow suggests that more value is created in a smooth, steady stream of software than in occasional large deployments. Flow is particularly important in structuring the different kinds of work that ...

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