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Planning Extreme Programming
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Planning Extreme Programming

by Kent Beck, Martin Fowler
October 2000
Intermediate to advanced
160 pages
2h 32m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Chapter 23. Changes to the Team

  • When the team changes, how does that affect your planning?

Coming

Give new team members an iteration or two to get acclimated. They can

  • Pair with more experienced folks

  • Read code and test cases

  • Talk to customers

During this orientation, we haven't found the need to predict a reduction in the team's velocity. Time spent answering newbie questions is made up for in the new perspective they bring to old problems.

Yesterday's Weather will tell you when to increase your estimates based on the presence of new people. A project of Kent's added two new people to a team of eight and had a disastrous iteration, mostly because of deferred refactorings that caught up with them. The team declared that the "Lost Iteration" and planned ...

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