Re: Re: Digest Number 130

On Friday, January 9, 2004, at 3:12:59 PM, J. B. Rainsberger wrote:

> Ron Jeffries wrote:

>>  > We XP enthusiasts certainly don't own the whole truth. Only through
>>  > dialog we may advance the state of things to hopefully have more
>>  > humane social environments for SW development.
>> 
>> Sadly, "humane" is really not an objective in the minds of most companies.
>> I think that I really believe that. If I do, it /does/ sadden me.

> That's why I think the way to advance the use of XP is to separate 
> interface from implementation. More and more I am convinced that the 
> /only/ way for me to use XP on a project is for my client to outsource 
> the entire project to me and, if I'm lucky, "my team." (My team, at 
> present, is me.)

> This way we only need XP-related buy-in from the Customer. For the rest, 
> we get business-related buy-in, which is easier (though not easy) to do. 
> The Whole Team has to implement the Business interface, which I don't 
> think I can achieve by joining an existing development group.

I'm not sure I understand fully about what you see as the business
interface, and how you would try to match up to it while doing XP.

Ron Jeffries
www.XProgramming.com
Get over it.  -- The Eagles


 

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