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Kent beck is an incredibly famous software engineer. Invented XP, and the wrote the most well known book on TDD.

• PaulHoule 4y ago
  His own writings aren't that bad but he's the Dr. Oz to the agile-charlatans. (e.g. Dr. Oz had to explain to Congress that he had no idea whatsoever why his face was on so many ads for scam weight loss products.)
  • UK-Al05 4y ago
    XP at the time was pretty good. A lot of people started doing CI of the back of XP. I'd say he's pretty sad about how agile turned out. Its pretty different to what XP advocated for in a lot of organisations.
    • PaulHoule 4y ago
      The thing is the agile-charlatans copied his style for talking about how programming teams should be organized.
      • blast 4y ago
        That's the charlatans' fault, not Kent's.
• prawn 4y ago
  For anyone else unfamiliar with "XP" in this context: "Extreme programming (XP) is a software development methodology intended to improve software quality and responsiveness to changing customer requirements. As a type of agile software development, it advocates frequent releases in short development cycles, intended to improve productivity and introduce checkpoints at which new customer requirements can be adopted." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_programming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_programming