Software Development Project Extreme


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Resources for Extreme Programming (XP).

A series of Overhead slides from an Extreme Programming Tutorial
Extreme Programming FAQ by John Brewer, Jera Design. A quite brief overview and a reasonable starting point.
Extreme Programming: A gentle introduction.
Introduction to Extreme - a more comprehensive and often discursive site with discussion about XP by its luminaries. This is where you really get more detail of what it actually means to tackle each of the elements. This is a challenging resource for those who want simple answers to complex questions (which don't have simple answers).
Extreme Programming Roadmap - the roadmap from the above wiki.
xprogramming.com - called an Agile Software Development Resource. This has links to articles which will give more depth for the Extreme Expert(s) in your group.

User stories.

An essential starting point for talking with the client is to elicit user stories. At its simplest, this is a way for the user to give a concrete description of what they need your system to do. To get a better understanding, see the discussion between the leaders in Extreme Programming: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?UserStory

Engineering Task.

Look at http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?EngineeringTask

Each of these will have a corresponding Trac ticket.

Roles for group members.

Tracker *
Manager *
Customer (aka client)
Programmer = everyone in group
Coach
Integration Tester
Usability Tester (desirable to have > 1)
Report
Demo and poster
Subversion expert(s)
Trac expert(s)
Extreme Programming expert(s)
Software Researcher (desirable to have > 1)
Existing Systems Researcher (desirable to have > 1)

* are leadership roles which will rotate for Weeks 2-4.

For more details of these, see Extreme Roles.

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