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It's way earlier than Extreme Programming. Believe it or not, it was once considered a part of Object Oriented Programming. Here's an article from IBM Systems J
by spolsky 18y ago
It's way earlier than Extreme Programming. Believe it or not, it was once considered a part of Object Oriented Programming. Here's an article from IBM Systems Journal 1993 where I first learned the idea of ship early and often:
http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/sj/323/ibmsj3203E.pdf http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/sj/323/ibmsj3203E.pdf [PDF]
- gnaritas 18y agoOh I believe it, I wasn't trying to imply the practice came from extreme programming, only that that's where I encountered it first.
- jhancock 18y agoI'll add that "Extreme Programming" and other forms of Agile is mostly a buzzword/re-branding to wrapper quite a few "best practices" from the OOP world. Which is appropriate since so many of the early agile manifesto folk were the same ones that pioneered the OOP best practices.