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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 24. Tools

 

(The French Marshals) planned their campaigns just as you might make a splendid set of harness. It looks very well, and answers very well, until it gets broken; and then you are done for. Now, I made my campaigns of ropes. If anything went wrong, I tied a knot; and went on.

 
 --The Duke of Wellington
  • Stick with simple tools, like pencil, paper, and whiteboard. Communication is more important to success than whizbang.

There are two problems to solve in project management:

  • Keeping track of all data

  • Maintaining communication and relationships between people

Our tool strategy for project management is biased heavily towards maintaining human communication and the relationships between people. For small to medium-sized projects, keeping ...

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