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Just another data point; XP contains some ideas that seem truly great, but I'm not convinced that you need to buy into the whole package. Like most people, we haven't bought into pair programming - pair debugging, sure. The really great idea is that of always doing a small number of the next-most- important features first, with necessary refactoring as you go, and repeating this loop until you declare victory. Why this wins: you would have had to do the refactoring anyhow; and this way, you do it with a good code-based understanding of how your key features have to work. Maybe, 20 years after I got into this profession, we can finally leave behind the notion that the business people will write a complete spec for what they need, and the programmers go implement that. It's never worked outside of a few specialized domains, and never will. Also the XP "story card" product management process is very good. As I've been saying in public, I think the people in the standards-building process could learn some valuable lessons from XP. -Tim
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