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The initial claim to fame of the XP crowd was the C3 project, an attempt to upgrade Chrystler's payroll system to handle Y2K. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chr
by sandofsky 3y ago
The initial claim to fame of the XP crowd was the C3 project, an attempt to upgrade Chrystler's payroll system to handle Y2K.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysler_Comprehensive_Compensation_System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysler_Comprehensive_Compens...
What nobody really talks about is how the project was ultimately cancelled. Reasons for the flop include unclear requirements, and the customer representative resigning due to burnout. That's fine, though many XP proponents sell it as a panacea that lets you respond to any change.
It's just remarkable to me how everyone involved was able to bootstrap careers as thought leaders from a project that failed so bad that Chrysler ended up banning XP.
- hyggetrold 3y agoI thought early Twitter took off in part with help from XP? My understanding was that Jack poached a lot of XP practitioners away from Pivotal Labs to help build both Twitter and Square?
- sandofsky 3y agoI had a long post written, and I've decided that it probably belongs in a blog post rather than a random Hacker News comment, so I deleted it. But I'll just say no, Twitter is absolutely not an XP success story.
- hyggetrold 3y agoMakes sense. Am I reading into your response if I assume you are not a fan of XP?
- sandofsky 3y agoThere are a handful of interesting ideas wrapped in a self-help program. For example, the idea of testing can be useful, while rules like “all code should have tests,” and “you should always write tests first,” are just silly. I’m sure it’s worked for some people on some projects, but generalizing that to all software development is just charlatanism.