Re: Re: Responsibility

On Sunday, December 15, 2002, at 8:20:45 AM, J. B. Rainsberger wrote:

> I see it this way, Charlie: programmers in XP take the Customer's decision about what constitutes value as
> gospel. Programmers do not estimate value; they follow the Customer's lead on which stories generate more value.
> Programmers also, for the most part, don't worry about how the Customer decides what generates how much value,
> because "that's a business decision".

> I think the way to decide what constitutes business value is orthogonal to XP. XP assumes that the Customer
> determines value "somehow".

Yes. This is a good first approximation to what happens when we begin doing XP.
The emergent effect is what comes as we really grow a "Whole Team". /Everyone/
discusses value and proposes good ideas if they have them. And the Customer
[subteam] determines the final priority and order of implementation.

The better the Programmers understand business value, the better they will make
the moment-to-moment decisions that they encounter.

Ron Jeffries
www.XProgramming.com
The rules are ways of thinking, not ways to avoid thinking.


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