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> Personally, I'm still an XP fiend at heart. Give me: a single list of prioritized work; a test suite I can trust … For me the essence of XP was always progra
by fzeindl 3y ago
> Personally, I'm still an XP fiend at heart. Give me: a single list of prioritized work; a test suite I can trust …
For me the essence of XP was always programming in pairs in front of a computer. That notion was somehow lost in the article and you also don‘t mention it.
- michael1999 3y agoPairing was the practice people talked about the most, because it caused the most friction. I'm not sure that I would say it was the essence of XP -- I think XP was about taking collective responsibility, sustainable pace, and feedback. Pairing was a practice to support those values. I miss pairing. It is powerful on its own, and is shockingly effective when combined with the whole XP thing. But you can still get a ton of value from the rest to XP even with async comms.
- fzeindl 3y agoI miss it too, I did almost every CS class at university paired and we generally scored very well.