Re: Managing Extreme Programming

On Monday, January 13, 2003, at 1:27:39 PM, Dan Rawsthorne wrote:

> I understand that this is what you want. My point is that doing XP makes
> it impossible to do it. Doing BCWP and ACWP analysis presumes an upfront
> knowledge of both scope and budget. This concept is antithetical to the
> concepts of XP. So, management will do it if they want to, but you have
> to know that either the "XP-ness" of the project will go away, or the
> numbers will be bogus. Dan  ;-)

Aren't the numbers always approximations, and known to be? Or are they just
approximations and NOT known to be?

Ron Jeffries
www.XProgramming.com
I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's;
I will not reason and compare; my business is to create. --William Blake


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