An Ethnographic study of XP practice

Sharp, Helen and Robinson, Hugh (2004). An Ethnographic study of XP practice. Empirical Software Engineering, 9(4) pp. 353–375.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1023/B:EMSE.0000039884.79385.54

Abstract

Agile methods are a response to more rigorous and traditional approaches to software development which are perceived to have failed both customers and software development practitioners. eXtreme Programming (XP) is an example agile method and we report on an ethnographic study of XP practice carried out in a small company developing web-based intelligent advertisements. We identify five characterising themes within XP practice and summarise these findings in terms of XP culture.

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• Item ORO ID
• 3560
• Item Type
• Journal Item
• ISSN
• 1573-7616
• Keywords
• XP culture; XP community; XP team; agile development; ethnographic studies; field studies
• Academic Unit or School
• Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) > Computing and Communications
  Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)
• Research Group
• Centre for Research in Computing (CRC)
• Copyright Holders
• © 2004 Kluwer Academic Publishers
• Depositing User
• Hugh Robinson