RE: Summing up and moving on (I hope)

Stefan,

> I think XP would be bigger if somehow they had a gradual process of
> improvement.  What I see as a problem with XP is that it is advocated
> as an all or nothing approach.

I was about to disagree with that last sentence but then I reread it and
realized it's correct.

Yes, XP "is advocated" as an all or nothing approach [ by some ] .

There does seem to be - as I think you're implying - a lack of awareness
that XP is applied in many different ways in different environments.
For example, we had a recent discussion on the xpAdoption list about
encouraging the adoption of some practices - "levels" of XP - in
companies that need to become more agile. We need to expose more of
that thread of XP thought to the business world.

> It should be
> scalable, it should be adaptable, and it should be about contininuous
> improvement.
>
> If XP is about embracing change, how much has XP changed in the years that
> it has been around?

Quite a bit. Practices have been renamed and reinterpreted. Discussion
is still going on about what some of them mean, sometimes heated. Some
authors have added new practices, while inventor has taken to saying
that the practices aren't that important. The change continues.

Charlie Poole
[email protected]
www.pooleconsulting.com
www.charliepoole.org





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