(Originally posted 2003.Apr.29 Tue; links may have expired.)
Very funny web-page: "Things my girlfriend and I have argued about "http://homepage.ntlworld.com/mil.millington/things.html. This is one bit my wife and I found funny:"Just for reference; if Margret returns from having her hair cut and says, 'What do you think?' and you reply, 'I'd love you whatever your hair was like,' well, that's very much The Wrong Answer, OK?"
Rus Rufer, on the IXP mailing list, mentioned two lists comparing traditional and lean project manager training that were in a draft of Lean Software Development, but which did not make it to the final version:
Traditional Project Manager Training
Lean Project Manager Training
On the XP mailing list, there has been some unhappiness at the name "Industrial XP", fearing that it will divide the XP community, and perhaps weaken attempts to "sell" XP into companies.
The IXP web page says "Industrial XP is tuned to handle the needs of large scale, mission critical and enterprise applications" which could be taken to imply that "Classic" XP (I might get some hate-mail for that name, which I didn't make up) hasn't had success in mission critical and enterprise applications (which would be wrong). I think the emphasis I heard at the BayXP presentation, that IXP is turned for "highly political organizations" is actually the correct differentiator between IXP and "Classic" XP, but that doesn't make the best advertising copy.
Ron Jeffries would like the IXP web page to say something like this:
IXP is Extreme Programming.
Extreme Programming, like any good software development method, is always adapted to the context. As a project gets more connections into the enterprise, it needs different practices, and for best results, these need to be consistent both with the enterprise needs and the principles and values of Extreme Programming.
XP and Agile software leaders, including Industrial Logic, have been applying Extreme Programming to larger scale, mission-critical, distributed, and highly-coordinated projects for some time now. We offer here a summary of the approaches and practices that we have used, and that our colleagues have used, in adapting XP to larger-scale situations.
And, Mark Simmonds wants us to know that DSDM 4.2 (not yet released), which blends DSDM and XP, is not the same as EnterpriseXP, which is supposed to be a web-portal to discuss ways to make XP more commercially appealing. Mark also says "One other point I'd like to clarify is that when using DSDM and XP together we do not advocate getting rid of the planning game, far from it. In fact I was delighted to see how closely the Planning Game matched the Timebox planning process I have used in DSDM projects for a number of years."
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