October 2007
Beginner
438 pages
15h 52m
English
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About the Études
Have you ever heard a musician playing scales? That’s an étude (if a boring one). An étude teaches mastery through precise and careful repetition. Eventually, the étude is abandoned, but the skills remain.
Extreme Programming is our étude for software development. We hope that practicing Extreme Programming week after week will help you master agile development. Eventually, you’ll change your practices, but the underlying principles will remain.
Besides the overarching étude of Extreme Programming, we’ve included a mini-étude for each major theme of agile development. Beginning agile teams can use the études to refine their practice of agile development. As you gain experience, look deeper; use the études to help connect Part II’s detailed practices to Part III’s general principles.
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These études are also useful for teams not currently practicing XP.
Either way, the études require thought to be effective. Each étude provides information, but it doesn’t tell you how to act on that information. Think about it. What did you learn from the étude? What was frustrating or exciting? How does that information affect your work? What will you do about it? Without attention and reflection—that is, mindfulness—the études are just games.
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It’s no coincidence that you need mindfulness to master the art of agile development as well. You have to think about more than XP’s practices for it to be effective.
Like musical études, our mini-études work best when you repeat them. We’ve ...
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