Extreme Programming has been building some notoriety over the last couple years. Although it is still an enigma to many who have heard about it, there are others who are actively doing it.

This workshop will be a place where those practitioners who are using it can come together to challenge and encourage each other as they share what they've been doing and where they are going and work together to refine their art. Rather than introduce or defend XP, we will be working together to examine what works and doesn't work and determine how to improve the practice and enlarge the applicable domain.

Those who have adopted XP have typically had to overcome many obstacles. Although we may have been inspired and encouraged by how XP worked on the Chrysler C3 payroll project we have each had our own context(s) in which we've had to introduce and execute XP. As interesting as it would be to hear all of those stories, we will not just present our experiences here.

We will be applying some of the XP practices throughout the day to produce a living Best Practices hypertext manual. We will start with an initial exploration phase based on position papers. We will then identify desirable outcomes (stories) and, based on what we have learned, suggest criteria (tests) by which practices should be judged. Then, working in pairs and using networked laptop computers, and with our position papers available online, we will author/edit the hypertext (custom wiki) of principles, practices, contexts, and criteria that will serve the participants needs in the coming year. We will extract from this hypertext a workshop report that will appear in the conference addendum. More importantly, the editable hypertext will remain a private resource for attendees of this and potential future workshops.

Organizers:

Ken Auer, RoleModel Software, Inc.
Email: kauer@rolemodelsoft.com

Ward Cunningham, Cunningham & Cunningham, Inc.